Roland Greene

Director
Stanford Humanities Center

Roland Greene assumed the directorship of the Stanford Humanities Center in September 2019. As Director of the Center, he holds the Anthony P. Meier Family Professorship in the Humanities. He is also the Mark Pigott KBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and is Professor of English and Comparative Literature.

His research and teaching are concerned with the early modern literatures of England, Latin Europe, and the transatlantic world, and with poetry and poetics from the Renaissance to the present.

Greene is the author of several books, including Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes (2013); Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas (1999); and Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence (1991). Greene is the editor in chief of the fourth edition of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (2012), the leading reference book on poetry. He is a past president of the Modern Language Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

A member of the Stanford faculty since 2001, he is co-chair and founder of two research workshops in which most of his PhD students participate: Renaissances and Poetics. Additionally, Greene is actively involved with the Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities, the Bing Overseas Studies Program, and the Program in Structured Liberal Education (SLE), of which he is a former director.

rgreene@stanford.edu

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