The English Department is pleased to have partnered with the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies to welcome Professor Roland Greene of Stanford University. On September 9th, Professor Greene will lead a two-hour graduate seminar devoted to the topic of poetry and poetics in comparative, transhistorical contexts.
Professor Greene is the Mark Pigott KBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford. He is the author of many works on early modern literatures of England, Latin Europe, and the transatlantic world, and on poetry and poetics from the Renaissance to the present. His books include Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes (Chicago, 2013) and Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas (Chicago, 1999).
Graduate students in all departments are invited to register for the seminar. Please register by Friday, September 2nd so that we can inform Professor Greene of how many students are attending. PDFs of the three assigned essays will be provided to all students who register. The essays are as follows:
- “Introduction: An Experiment in Early Modern Critical Semantics,” from Five Words (Chicago, 2013), 1–14
- "Interamerican Obversals: Haroldo de Campos and Allen Ginsberg Circa 1960,” in The Lyric Theory Reader, ed. Virginia Jackson and Yopie Prins (Johns Hopkins, 2014), 618–32
- "Poem,” in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Princeton, 2012), 1046–48
