Professor

Roland Greene

Stanford University
Literary and culture scholar; Editor; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature and Language Studies
Elected
2017
Greene is a scholar of Renaissance culture, especially the literatures of England, Latin Europe, and the transatlantic world, and of poetry and poetics from the sixteenth century to the present. Diverse by topic and method, his books and essays contribute to several fields including the history and theory of lyric poetry, colonial studies, and cultural history realized through semantics (or as he calls it, critical semantics). He served as editor-in-chief of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. In 2015-16 he served as president of the Modern Language Association. He directs the Stanford Humanities Center.
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