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Roland Greene

Mark Pigott KBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and a professor of English and comparative literature

Roland Greene is the Mark Pigott KBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and a professor of English and comparative literature. Roland Greene's research and teaching are chiefly concerned with the early modern literatures of England, Latin Europe, and the transatlantic world. His most recent book is Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes (2013). He served as editor in chief of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Fourth Edition (2012), the most authoritative reference book on poetry. His recent essays deal with topics such as the colonial baroque, Spenser's Faerie Queene, the Puritan poet Ann Lock, and Shakespeare's The Tempest. He is now at work on a book about the Baroque.

Professor Greene is the founder and director of Arcade, a digital salon for literary studies and the humanities. In 2015-16 he served as President of the Modern Language Association of America, the largest scholarly organization in the world. 

A native of Los Angeles, he has taught at Harvard, Princeton, and Oregon, where for six years he was director of the Program in Comparative Literature. He has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Danforth Foundation, among others.

ACCOLADES:

-- Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2006 - 2007



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Books Roland Hosted

  • King Lear