Roland Greene

About Roland: Roland Greene is a scholar of the early modern literatures of England, Latin Europe, and the colonial Americas, and of poetry and poetics from the sixteenth century to the present. He has taught at Stanford since 2001. Currently he serves as Director of the Stanford Humanities Center, the leading university-based research institute in the humanities.

Talk title: When Elizabeth I Owned California: A Counterfactual History
In 1579, Francis Drake claimed Northern California for England, a claim that persisted into the nineteenth century. What if the English settlement of North America had proceeded from west to east? This talk imagines a different account of US history.