Roland Greene (born 1957) is a scholar of the early modern literature and culture of England, Latin Europe, and the colonial Americas; and of poetry and poetics from the sixteenth century to the present.
Greene served as president of the Modern Language Association in 2015-16,[3] and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Greene's writing about literature is characterized by its distinctive approaches, original theoretical models, and wide linguistic range.
He is the author of Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes (2013), a study of the long sixteenth century in Europe and the Americas through the changes embodied in five common words across several languages; Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas (1999), which explores the social and political implications of love poetry in the first decades after the Columbian and Brazilian enterprises in the New World; and Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence (1991), a study of fundamental issues in lyric poetics from Francis Petrarch's fourteenth-century Canzoniere to the late twentieth-century poetry of the Chilean Pablo Neruda and the Peruvian Martín Adán.
Greene is married to Marisa Galvez, Professor of French and Italian and, by courtesy, of German Studies at Stanford, as of 2021.