Roy Rosenstein
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature
- Department: Comparative Literature and English
A New Yorker by birth, Professor Rosenstein also holds British and Lithuanian passports. He took his degrees on both sides of the Atlantic:泭Sorbonne (licence, ma簾trise), Harvard (MA), Columbia (PhD).泭He has also taught on the East and West Coasts, in Greece, in Brazil, and at the Sorbonne. In earlier years he worked as escort interpreter for the U.S. Department of State. The French government recently named him Chevalier des arts et des lettres.
As a comparatist, his research focuses principally on the Romance languages. His publications attest wider interests, developed in the 91勛圖厙classroom teaching all periods from antiquity to contemporary. He has published on the classical tradition, on medieval and Renaissance authors, but also on modern literatures, including English and American. He has written about gays, Jews, and Muslims in medieval literature; Arabic ties to Western texts; Russian and German models for Japanese fiction; foreign wars in American literature; medieval to modern womens writing from the U.S., France, Brazil, and elsewhere. For more information, see the .
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Education/Degrees
- PhD (with Distinction) in Comparative Literature, Columbia University
- Ma簾trise-癡s-Lettres (Mention Bien), University of Paris IV-Sorbonne
- MA (Honors), Harvard University
- BA (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Columbia University
- Licence-癡s-Lettres (Mention Tr癡s Bien), University of Paris V-Ren矇 Descartes
- Certificates, Universities of Madrid, Florence, and Urbino
Publications
Books
- Jewish Identity and Comparative Studies / Jud矇it矇 et Comparatisme. Etudes泭 offertes Astrid泭 Starck-Adler.泭 泭紼矇餃勳矇措硃梭梗莽 68.泭Amiens,泭Presses du Centre d'Etudes 紼矇餃勳矇措硃梭梗莽 de Picardie,泭 2019.泭XLI,泭645 pp.泭With Danielle Buschinger.
- .泭泭Routledge Revivals. London, Routledge, 2019, 201 pp. Musical appendix by Hendrik van der Werf.泭With George Wolf. New edition of 1983 book.
- De Christine de Pizan 泭Hans Robert Jauss. Etudes offertes Earl Jeffrey泭Richards.泭紼矇餃勳矇措硃梭梗莽泭63.泭泭Amiens,泭Presses du Centre d'Etudes 紼矇餃勳矇措硃梭梗莽 de Picardie, 2017.泭V, 655泭pp.泭 With泭Danielle泭Buschinger.泭
- .泭Litt矇rature occitane "Troubadours". Gardonne, F矇d矇rop, 2011, 88 pp. With Yves Leclair.
- . Textes litt矇raires fran癟ais, # 390.泭Geneva: Droz, 1990, XIV, 244 pp.泭Pr矇face dYves Bonnefoy.泭 With Hoyt Rogers.泭泭泭泭
- . Garland Library of Medieval Literature, Vol. 5A. New York: Garland, 1983, 201 pp. Musical appendix by Hendrik van der Werf.泭With George Wolf.
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Journal articles, book chapters泭and other publications
Antiquity and the classical tradition泭泭泭泭泭泭泭泭泭泭泭泭泭泭泭
- "De la sorcellerie la sagesse :泭 Ovide, Apul矇e, St. Augustin," Magie, F矇erie, Sorcellerie, Amiens: CEM de Picardie, in press, expected in 2019.
- " De 釦勳紳棗喝堯矇 Apul矇e : partir laventure, " Ce qui advient奸es d矇clinaisons de laventure, Amiens: CEM de Picardie, 2018, 204-12.
- Iocus amoenus : le jeu po矇tico-amoureux : Ovide, lArchipo癡te, le Comte de Poitiers, Homo ludens, Homo loquens: El juego y la palabra en la Edad Media, ed. Maria Pilar Suarez Pascal, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 2013, 153-59.
- "Plutus as Study Text in the French Renaissance,"泭Humanismo y pervivencia del mundo cl獺sico泭4 (2003), 22-31.泭泭
- "Aristophanes le Quintessential et celuy qui [le] fait renaistre,"泭Etudes rabelaisiennes泭74 (2001), 341-56.
- "Naso [ludi] magister erat,"泭LAntichit nella cultura europea del Medioevo, Reineke, 1998, 105-116.
- "Montaigne et Tabourot lecteurs du Cratyle,"泭Montaigne et l'Histoire des Hell癡nes, Paris: Klincksieck, 1994, 114-23.泭泭泭
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Medieval France, England, Italy, Spain, Portugal
- Le savoir proverbial de Salomon, Le roi Salomon au Moyen Age : savoirs et representations, ed. Jean-Patrice Boudet et al., Turnhout: Brepols, 2020, in preparation.
- Bernart de Ventadorn (fl. ca. 1145-1180), Jaufre Rudel (fl. 1120-1148), and Marcabru (fl. 1130- 1149), Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia Online, in preparation. (With Wendy Pfeffer)
- Avant la vida : aux origines de la l矇gende de Jaufre Rudel, grand amour ou petite mort ? Les t矇moignages de Rofian et P矇trarque, Revue des langues romanes 124 (2020), in preparation.
- 泭Le dialogue de deux machines de guerre (Toulouse, juin 1218) : de la Canso de la crozada la tenso de Ramon Escrivan, 泭Robots, Androides, Machines : Les automates entre la magie et la technique en litt矇rature depuis lantiquit矇, Amiens: CEM, 2019, in press.
- Passatz es le temps圬el gentils he pros Jauffres de Blaya? La post矇rit矇 de la vida l矇gendaire en Catalogne et en catalan au Moyen Age et aux temps modernes, La r矇ception des troubadours en Catalogne, Brepols: 2019, in press.
- ぼ梗 lautodaf矇 lanthologie : censure et traduction dEtienne Durans (1586-1618), Translatio et histoire des id矇es,泭 2019, in press.
- L梗莽 troubadours, entre la Sicile et lOccitanie : le cas unique de Perceval Doria, Etudes m矇di矇vales 20 (2019), in press.
- 泭Distant Dove and Distant Love: Legendary Love Pilgrims Juda Halevi and Jaufre Rudel on the Poetry of Exile, Jewish Identity and Comparative Studies / Jud矇it矇 et Comparatisme. Etudes offertes Astrid Starck-Adler, Amiens: CEM de Picardie, 2019, 151-66.
- ぼ梗莽勳娶勳紳眶, European Literary History: An Introduction, eds. De Pourcq and Levie, Routledge, 2018, 97-106.
- Jean-Scholastique Pitton lit et relit Jean et C矇sar de Nostredame, La R矇ception des troubadours en Provence : XVIe-XVIIIe si癡cle, Paris: Garnier, 2018, 137-45.
- Stillicide, or the Waterdrop that Breaks Rock: From Amor qui tout vainct to Todo lo vence el dinero,泭 Ceci nest pas une chanson damour: les multiples visages de la po矇sie didactique, Amiens: CEM de la Picardie, 2017,泭 213-32.
- Le troubadour Jaufre Rudel de Blaye, homme de voyage : de la Syrie en Italie, Angleterre, Ecosse, Etudes m矇di矇vales 17-19 (2017), 51-64.
- Pourquoi le cheval parle son ma簾tre mais les chiens pr矇f癡rent causer entre eux, Mondes animaliers au Moyen Age et la Renaissance, Amiens: CEM, 2016, 367-77.
- 漍No.m platz car fort menoia: ceux que les troubadours ne tol癡rent pas dans leurs enuegs, Etudes offertes Danielle Buschinger, Amiens: CEM, 2016, 114-21.
- Comment triompher des Francs Roncevaux? Une r矇ponse byzantine, L矇pop矇e : Le h矇ros entre histoire et mythe de lAntiquit矇 la Renaissance en Occident, Amiens: CEM, 2015, 304-15.
- ぼ喝 magister au maistre : des vantardises dOvide au gap du Comte de Poitiers, Guilhem de Peitieus. Duc dAquitaine, Prince du Trobar, Cahiers de Ventadour, 2015, 265-74.
- Le Chevalier Vert, reprise ou refonte de Sire Gauvain ?泭 Le Personnage de Gauvain dans la litt矇rature europ矇enne du Moyen Age, Amiens: CEM, 2015, 271-82.泭
- L梗莽 imrama Tristan : voyages de Tristan et du Tristan, 紼矇餃勳矇措硃梭梗莽 15-16 (2014), 94-102.
- Graal Troubadour : Rigaut de Berbezilh, Le Graal: gen癡se, evolution et avenir dun mythe, Amiens: CEM de Picardie, 2014, 290-99.
- 漍Despollatz sotz cobertor: comment faire son lit avec les troubadours? Etudes m矇di矇vales 15-16 (2014), 211-18.
- Fragments dun nouveau manuscript du Tristan en prose,泭 Tristan et Yseut, ou lEternel Retour, CEM, 2013, 247-55.
- 泭Arnaut Daniel parle-t-il le portugais ?, Arnaut Daniel : Joglar, orf癡vre et maistro, Cahiers de Carrefour Ventadour, 2012, 93-106.
- 泭Helen Waddell at Columbia: Maker of Medievalists.泭Makers of the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of William Calin. Kalamazoo, WMU, 2011, 15-20.
- Jaufre Rudel au pluriel,泭Jaufre Rudel : Prince, amant et po癡te, Cahiers de Carrefour Ventadour,泭 2011, 103-114.
- Past Perfect, Future Indefinite: Sir Thomas Malorys Morte Darthur.泭Temps et m矇moire dans la litt矇rature arthurienne. Bucharest, University, 2011, 401-408.
- "La vida es sue簽o: grammaires dabsence et de pr矇sence dans la vida sostenguda de Jaufr矇 Rudel.泭La voix occitane. Bordeaux: Presses Universitaires, 2009, 171-84.
- Sainte Eulalie et la belle parole.泭Mourir pour des id矇es. Besan癟on: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comt矇, 2008, 283-97.
- Short articles, Emmerson and Emmerson,泭Key Figures in Medieval Europe, Routledge, 2006.
- Ubi Sunt? Three Lost (and Found) Ladies in Troubadour Lyric,泭Medieval Constructions in Gender and Identity. Arizona, 2005, 87-102.
- Gaudairenca,泭Medieval Women: An Encyclopedia, Greenwood, 2004, 355-58.
- "Fictitious tenso: authentic genre?"Loffrande du coeur, University of Canterbury, 2004, 96-107.泭泭
- Short entries,泭Dante Encyclopedia, New York: Taylor and Francis, 2000.泭
- "The Voiced and the Voiceless in the Cancioneiros,"泭La cor籀nica泭26 (1998), 65-75.泭
- "Le Chastelain de Couci et les troubadours,"泭Le Rayonnement des troubadours, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998, 27-53.
- "Convivencia and Outsiderhood in Galician-Portuguese,"泭Toleranz und Intoleranz im Mittelalter,1997, 83-92.
- Advisory board member and contributor, Kibler and Zinn,泭Medieval France: An Encyclopedia.泭New York: Garland, 1995.
- "Guiraudo lo Ros ou le conventionnalisme exemplaire,"泭Les troubadours et lEtat toulousain, CELO, 1994, 193-210.
- "Malory laudator temporis acti,"泭Temps des fins et fin des temps, Aix-en-Provence, 1993, 457-74.泭
- "Le don du coeur, dYvain la chanson de croisade."泭Le Cuer au Moyen Age. Aix-en-Provence, 1991, 363-74.
- "Latent Dialogue and Manifest Role-Playing. "泭Neuphilologische Mitteilungen泭91 (1990), 357-68.
- "Andalusian and Occitan Love-Lyric."泭Zeitschrift fur Romanische Philologie泭106 (1990), 338-53.
- "New Perspectives on Distant Love."泭Modern Philology泭87 (1990), 225-38.泭
- "Les ann矇es d'apprentissage du troubadour Jaufre Rudel."泭Annales du Midi泭100 (1988), 7-15.泭
- "Retour aux origines du troubadour Jaufre Rudel."泭Studia Mart穩n de Riquer, Barcelona, Quaderns Crema, 1987, 2: 603-11.
- Short articles.泭Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Scribners, 1982-89泭泭
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Renaissance France, England, Italy, Spain, Portugal
- ぼ梗 La C矇lestine (1499) Pantagruel (1532) : Histoire de deux planctus. Etudes rabelaisiennes 56 (2017), 437-44.
- Jaufre Rudel entre mouvance et telephone arabe : un texte en train de se faire se d矇fait, de Nostredame Mrs. Thrale (1575-1800), Occitania en Catalonha; de tempses novels, de nov癡las perspectivas, Generalitat de Catalunya, 2017,泭 629-40.
- Global Petrarchism in the Global Classroom, De Christine de Pizan Hans Robert Jauss. Etudes offertes Earl Jeffrey Richards, Amiens: CEM de Picardie, 2017, 550-62.
- Jaufre Rudel de Blaye Florence : Dante, P矇trarque, Boccace, Revue des langues romanes 120 (2016), 185-204.
- Entre deux Nostredame, Jean (1575) et C矇sar (1614) : Jean Nicot de N簾mes (1606) et Jacques Ferrand dAgen (1610), lecteurs des Italiens, La R矇ception des troubadours en Languedoc et en France, XVIe-XVIIIe si癡cle, Paris: Garnier,泭 2015, 48-56.
- Crossdressing Medieval Troubadours, Castile to Brazil: Cristobal de Castillejo (d. 1550) and Augusto de Campos (b. 1931), Relief 8 (2014), 134-51.
- Quand Robert Burns chante Jaufr矇 Rudel, Los que fan viure e treslusir loccitan, Limoges: Lambert-Lucas, 2014, 705-15.
- Browne, Borges, and Back: Phantasmagories of Imaginative Learning,泭Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed. Oxford: OUP, 2008, 296-310.
- "Miquel de la Tor's Songbook in Sixteenth-Century France,"泭M矇langes de langue et de litt矇rature m矇di矇vales offerts Herman Braet, Louvain: Peeters, 2006, 925-43.
- "Richard the Redeless,"泭Travels and Translations in the Sixteenth Century, London: Ashgate, 2004, 137-49
- "Cervantes et le Cymbalum Mundi:泭 loquax canum agmen,"泭Le Cymbalum Mundi, Geneva: Droz, 2003, 513-23.
- "From Polydore Vergil to Shakespeare."泭Polidoro Virgili e la cultura humanistica europea, Urbino, 2003,109-39.泭泭泭泭泭泭
- "Pour une lecture plurielle de l'Heptameron,"泭Marguerite de Navarre, Folia Litteraria Romanica, 1997, 117-27.
- "De l'inconstance th矇matique a une po矇tique de l'inconstance,"泭 Neophilologus泭72 (1988), 180-90.
- "Embl矇matique et po矇tique du feu,泭Le Sonnet la Renaissance.泭Paris, 1988, 181-91.
- "Late Renaissance Petrarchism,"泭Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature泭27 (1987), 687-701.
- "Ubica癟瓊o e particularismo da l穩ngua de Cam繭es,"泭Arquivos do Centro Cultural Portugu礙s泭21 (1986), 243-62.泭泭泭
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Modern and Contemporary Europe and Americas
- Because You are 喊棗喝: Jewish Identity and Comparative Studies, Jewish Identity and Comparative Studies / Jud矇it矇 et Comparatisme. Etudes offertes Astrid Starck-Adler, Amiens: CEM de Picardie, 2019, XXXVI-XLI.
- 漍Miss Lo簿s, une comparatiste disciple de Joseph Anglade pendant les ann矇es 1920 : Lois Strong Gaudin (1901-1975), Cent ans de recherches m矇ridionales Toulouse: lInstitut d矇tudes m矇ridionales, Toulouse : Presses universitaires du Midi, 2018, 317-30.
- Eliza Miruna Ghil (1943-2017), Tenso 33 (2018), 269-72.
- Troubadours aujourdhui : trobadors al segle XX. Le po癡te L矇on Cordes et sa translation, Revue des langues romanes, 120 (2016), 301-8.
- Mouvance et traduction : de lautre nous, de lautre en nous, Translatio y cultura, Madrid : Dykinson, 2015, 273-80.
- Part Lemouzi : les p矇r矇grinations du chat roux de Toulouse (1657) au Br矇sil (2004), Guilhem de Peitieus. Duc dAquitaine, Prince du Trobar, Cahiers de Ventadour, 2015, 329-38
- For Peter Pan and Puer Senex: Lipectors Childrens Literature, Music and Literature 4 (2014), 101-106, 274.
- Le son du cor au fond du Br矇sil nest point triste quand Augusto de Campos donne la r矇plique Alfred de Vigny, La m矇moire loeuvre. Fixations et mouvances m矇di矇vales, Besan癟on: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comt矇, 2013, 367-81.
- Dystopian Borges: The Lottery in Babylon and its Utopian Model, From Francis Bacon to William Golding, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2012, 118-30.
- Innocents Underground?泭Mark Twain Rewrites Poes Murders in the Rue Morgue.泭Edgar Allan Poe: The Bicentennial, 1809-2009. Baia Mare, University, 2011, 51-60.
- Mavis Gallant (1922- ) and Gabriel Baum (1935- ) on Ethnodiversity.泭 Managing Diversity and Social Cohesion: The Canadian Experience. Brno, Masaryk University, 2010, 397-401.
- The End of Insect Imagery: From Dostoevsky to Kobo Ab矇 via Kafka. Rpt. in泭Short Story Criticism泭134 (2010), 138-146.
- Articles on France, Paris, Gorky, McCullers, etc.泭The Richard Wright Encyclopedia. Westport: Greenwood, 2008.
- "The End of Insect Imagery: From Dostoyevsky to Kobo Ab矇 via Kafka."泭Insect Poetics. University of Minnesota, 2006, 112-28.
- Articles on E.E. Cummings, Rub矇n Dar穩o, Jean Nicot, Mark Twain, Richard Wright,泭France and the Americas, ABC-Clio, 2005.
- Articles on Gide, Kafka, Koestler, and Silone,泭Dictionary of Literary Influences, Westport: Greenwood, 2004.
- "LAmour de loin dAmin Maalouf et Kaija Saariaho,"泭Quatre si癡cles de livret dop矇ra, Amiens, 2004, 201-8.
- Articles on Kay Boyle and others,泭Encyclopedia of American War Literature, Westport: Greenwood, 2001.
- "De Rostand a Vercors par D繹blin,"泭Vercors et son oeuvre, Paris: Harmattan, 1999, 123-38.
- "A Medieval Troubadour Mobilized in the French Resistance,"泭Journal of the History of Ideas泭59 (1998), 499-520.泭
- "Andrew Lang, 1844-1912,"泭British Bookmen, Dictionary of Literary Biography 184, 1997, 235-44.
- "From The Song of Roland to the Songs of Arnaut Daniel [in Modern Brazil],"泭Studies in Medievalism泭8 (1997), 223-40.
- "Resistance Literature and the Exilic Imagination,"泭Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies泭27 (1997), 521-57.
- "Re(dis)covering Oscar Wilde for Latin America,"泭Rediscovering Oscar Wilde, Colin Smythe, 1994, 348-61.
- "Lispector's Children's Literature," in Diane Marting,泭Clarice Lispector, Greenwood, 1993, 159-67.
- "Nicaraguan Poet as Wandering Jew,"泭Latin American Literary Review泭35 (1990), 59-70.泭泭泭
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Translation and Translations
- ぼ梗 lautodaf矇 lanthologie : censure et traduction dEtienne Durand (1586-1618),泭Translatio et histoire des id矇es,泭 2019, in press.
- Mouvance et traduction : de lautre nous, de lautre en nous,泭Translatio y cultura, Madrid : Dykinson, 2015, 273-80.
- Translations,泭The Norton Anthology of Western Literature, 2006;泭The Norton Anthology of World Literature, 2002;泭The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, 1999.
- Translations,泭Distant Love, Paul Hillier and Andrew Laurence-King, Harmonia Mundi CD 907203, 2000.泭泭
- Translations,泭Richard Coeur de Lion, Alla Francesca, Centre de Musique Medievale de Paris, Opus 111 CD, 1996.
- Translation,泭Handbook to the Troubadours, University of California Press, 1995, 334-38.
- "Translating the Trobadors,"泭Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature泭37 (1988), 69-78.
- Translation of Tzvetan Todorov, "Significance and Meaning,"泭Semiotica泭 (1981), 113-18.泭泭
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Linguistics and Language泭
- Occitan Language and Troubadour Song in Renaissance France,"泭Etudes Peter T. Ricketts, Brepols, 2005, 645-55.
- "Broadening the Perspectives of South African English and Afrikaans Research,"泭Lexikos泭3 (1993), 227-58.泭
- "The Jewish Family Name File at the Quarter-Century Mark,"泭Onoma泭(1993).泭泭泭
- "Mouvance and the Editor as Scribe: Trascrittore traditore?"泭Romanic Review泭80 (1989), 157-71.
- "Jean Nicot's Thresor and Renaissance Multilingual Lexicography,"泭Dictionaries泭7 (1985), 32-56.泭泭泭
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Teaching Writing泭
- "To Write Well Means to Rewrite,"泭Scissors and Tooth, Writing Beyond the Discipline, 2 (2008), 45-49.
- "The Fine Points of Writing,"泭Scissors and Tooth, The Culture of Writing, 1 (2005), 55-60.
Conferences & Lectures
Over fifty presentations on campuses from Turin to Toronto, in dozens of countries from Australia to Zimbabwe.
Affiliations
- Member, D矇cor矇s des Arts et des Lettres (Chevalier, 2012)
- Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Tau Delta, Phi Sigma Iota, Pi Delta Phi泭
- Member,泭Laboratoire dEdition de Textes M矇di矇vaux, Equipe de recherche E.A. 2554, CNRS, Paris
- Member,泭University of Versailles interdisciplinary research center on the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- Member,泭editorial boards of泭 La France latine and泭 Ilha do desterro
- Member,泭coordinating board of the American Studies Center, Siauliai University, Lithuania
- Past Fellow, Whiting, Mellon, and Camargo Foundations泭
- Recipient, NEH, ACLS, CCHA, ENS, USC, SUNY, NYU, UCLA, Fordham, and Fulbright grants
- Recipient, French government grant泭
- Recipient, Justin O'Brien Memorial Award
- Recipient, The American University of Paris Distinguished Teaching Award