【 Leading-Edge Lecture 45】Literary Studies Between Universalism and Apocalypse

【Leading-Edge Lecture 45】

Literary Studies Between Universalism and Apocalypse

l   Date：Tuesday, April 29, 2025

l   Time：09:00 – 11:00 A.M. (GMT+08)

l   Format： Online Talk via Cisco Webex

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Abstract：

The lecture will consider how literary study as a discipline has evolved over the past century through a struggle against universalism, and how in our time new perspectives have arisen to reflect the emergence of methods (such as digital humanities) and public issues (such as climate change). For a discipline that has overcome universalist assumptions almost in living memory, could a new universalism be on the horizon?

Speaker：

Roland Greene (Mark Pigott KBE Professor, Anthony P. Meier Family Professor of the Humanities; Director, Humanities Center; Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University, U.S.A)

Roland Greene has been Director of the Stanford Humanities Center since September 2019. As Director, he holds the Anthony P. Meier Family Professorship in the Humanities. He is also the Mark Pigott KBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and is Professor of English and Comparative Literature.

His research and teaching are concerned with the early modern literatures of England, Latin Europe, and the transatlantic world, and with poetry and poetics from the Renaissance to the present.

Greene is the author of several books, including Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes (2013); Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas (1999); and Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence (1991). Greene is the editor in chief of the fourth edition of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (2012), the leading reference book on poetry. He is a past president of the Modern Language Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Moderator：

Sebastian Hsien-hao Liao（Distinguished Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures; Dean, Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, NTU

Organizer ： Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, NTU

Co-organizer ：ASE Cultural & Educational Foundation