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2003 SPRING LECTURES
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“A Syntax of Early Modern Cultural Semantics”
a lecture by Roland Greene, Stanford University
Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.
Dept. of Special Collections, 102 Hesburgh Library,
University of Notre Dame |
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 Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas (Chicago, 1999), which follows the love poetry of the Renaissance into fresh political and colonial contexts in the New World. He is also the author of Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence (Princeton, 1991), and the editor with Elizabeth Fowler of The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World (Cambridge, 1997). His recent essays deal with topics such as Spenser's Faerie Queene, the Puritan poet Ann Lock, and Shakespeare's The Tempest. He is now at work on a book about the early modern cultural semantics of five words: blood, invention, language, resistance, and world.
Greene is also interested in the literary and cultural expressions of contemporary Latinity, especially Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Cuban-American poetry and other writings as well as their counterparts in Latin America; in modern and contemporary poetry, especially the experimental traditions of the Americas; and in the problems and opportunities of comparative literature. He serves as general editor of a new series of critical volumes to be published by the Modern Language Association, entitled Interventions in World Literature.
A native of Los Angeles, Greene has taught at Harvard, Princeton, and Oregon, where for seven 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. He is President of the International Spenser Society and a member of the Executive Council of the MLA.
(Source: Stanford University profile)
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Roland Greene, Stanford University
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Kirsten M. Christensen, Department of German and Russian
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Joseph A. Buttigieg, Department of English
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"English and Arabic: A Thousand and One Interfaces"
Asma Afsaruddin, Department of Classics / Middle Eastern Studies
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"Resurrecting Romance: Is There Life After Philology?"
Theodore Cachey, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
The panel is designed to stimulate conversation about evolving relations, including institutional arrangements, between English and other language and literature programs, in both theoretical and practical terms, with a focus on new intellectual challenges and opportunities.*
An open discussion, moderated by Prof. Greg Kucich, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, will follow a series of brief statements by the panelists. All interested faculty and students are welcome to participate in the conversation. The meeting will be followed by a reception to which all are invited. The meeting is co-sponsored by the Departments of English, Romance Languages, the Ph.D. in Literature Program, and allied programs and departments.
* See "Conference on the Relation between English and Foreign Languages in the Academy: Constructing Dialogue, Imagining Change." PMLA 117.5 (2002): 1233-1294.
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