Purdue University College of Liberal Arts
Information for
2008 Woodman Lecture
The Department of English welcomes you to the Leonora Woodman Lecture Series website. This lecture series was established to honor the memory of a cherished colleague.
The Department is pleased to announce that the 2008 Leonora Woodman Memorial lecturer will be:
Roland Greene, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University
The lecture will be held on Thursday, October 23, 2008, 4:30 p.m., Krannert Auditorium. The title of his talk will be: “Between Poetry and Prose: Figures of Power and Resistance in Early Modern Writing.” Professor 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).