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Graduate Workshop on Transnational and Transhistorical Poetics with Roland Greene

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September 9, 2016
5:00AM - 7:00AM
311 Denney Hall

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Add to Calendar 2016-09-09 05:00:00 2016-09-09 07:00:00 Graduate Workshop on Transnational and Transhistorical Poetics with Roland Greene Time: 9-11 a.m. Event Host: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Department of English Short Description: 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 Sept. 9, Greene will lead a two-hour graduate seminar devoted to the topic of poetry and poetics in comparative, transhistorical contexts. The Department of English is pleased to have partnered with the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies to welcome Roland Greene of Stanford University. On Sept. 9, Greene will lead a two-hour graduate seminar devoted to the topic of poetry and poetics in comparative, transhistorical contexts. The lecture will be followed by an informal roundtable discussion with the speaker, and light refreshments will be served. Before the talk, the CMRS will also host an “open forum” (2:30 p.m., 455 Hagerty Hall) that will provide a unique opportunity for students and faculty to learn about the academic and career background of the visitor in an informal, conversational environment. 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, Sept. 2 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), 1046–48The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies cordially invites you to attend the first lecture of our 2016-2017 series, to be held next Friday, September 9, at 4:00 p.m. in Room 090 of the 18th Avenue Library at OSU. 311 Denney Hall College of Arts and Sciences asccomm@osu.edu America/New_York public
Time: 9-11 a.m.
Event Host: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Department of English
Short Description: 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 Sept. 9, Greene will lead a two-hour graduate seminar devoted to the topic of poetry and poetics in comparative, transhistorical contexts.


The Department of English is pleased to have partnered with the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies to welcome Roland Greene of Stanford University. On Sept. 9, Greene will lead a two-hour graduate seminar devoted to the topic of poetry and poetics in comparative, transhistorical contexts. The lecture will be followed by an informal roundtable discussion with the speaker, and light refreshments will be served. Before the talk, the CMRS will also host an “open forum” (2:30 p.m., 455 Hagerty Hall) that will provide a unique opportunity for students and faculty to learn about the academic and career background of the visitor in an informal, conversational environment. 

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, Sept. 2 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

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies cordially invites you to attend the first lecture of our 2016-2017 series, to be held next Friday, September 9, at 4:00 p.m. in Room 090 of the 18th Avenue Library at OSU.

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