绿巨人视频

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:听Sorbonne (licence, ma卯trise), Harvard (MA), Columbia (PhD).听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 绿巨人视频 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 women鈥檚 writing from the U.S., France, Brazil, and elsewhere. For more information, see the .



Education/Degrees

  • PhD (with Distinction) in Comparative Literature, Columbia University
  • Ma卯trise-猫s-Lettres (Mention Bien), University of Paris IV-Sorbonne
  • MA (Honors), Harvard University
  • BA (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Columbia University
  • Licence-猫s-Lettres (Mention Tr猫s Bien), University of Paris V-Ren茅 Descartes
  • Certificates, Universities of Madrid, Florence, and Urbino

Publications

Books
  • Jewish Identity and Comparative Studies / Jud茅it茅 et Comparatisme. Etudes听 offertes 脿 Astrid听 Starck-Adler.听 听惭茅诲颈茅惫补濒别蝉 68.听Amiens,听Presses du Centre d'Etudes 惭茅诲颈茅惫补濒别蝉 de Picardie,听 2019.听XLI,听645 pp.听With Danielle Buschinger.
  • .听听Routledge Revivals. London, Routledge, 2019, 201 pp. Musical appendix by Hendrik van der Werf.听With George Wolf. New edition of 1983 book.
  • De Christine de Pizan 脿听Hans Robert Jauss. Etudes offertes 脿 Earl Jeffrey听Richards.听惭茅诲颈茅惫补濒别蝉听63.听听Amiens,听Presses du Centre d'Etudes 惭茅诲颈茅惫补濒别蝉 de Picardie, 2017.听V, 655听pp.听 With听Danielle听Buschinger.听
  • .听Litt茅rature occitane "Troubadours". Gardonne, F茅d茅rop, 2011, 88 pp. With Yves Leclair.
  • . Textes litt茅raires fran莽ais, # 390.听Geneva: Droz, 1990, XIV, 244 pp.听Pr茅face d鈥橸ves Bonnefoy.听 With Hoyt Rogers.听听听听
  • . Garland Library of Medieval Literature, Vol. 5A. New York: Garland, 1983, 201 pp. Musical appendix by Hendrik van der Werf.听With George Wolf.
Journal articles, book chapters听and other publications
Antiquity and the classical tradition听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听
  • "De la sorcellerie 脿 la sagesse :听 Ovide, Apul茅e, St. Augustin," Magie, F茅erie, Sorcellerie, Amiens: CEM de Picardie, in press, expected in 2019.
  • " De 厂颈苍辞耻丑茅 脿 Apul茅e : partir 脿 l鈥檃venture, " Ce qui advient鈥es d茅clinaisons de l鈥檃venture, Amiens: CEM de Picardie, 2018, 204-12.
  • Iocus amoenus : le jeu po茅tico-amoureux : Ovide, l鈥橝rchipo猫te, le Comte de Poitiers,鈥 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,"听Humanismo y pervivencia del mundo cl谩sico听4 (2003), 22-31.听听
  • "鈥橝ristophanes le Quintessential鈥 et 鈥榗eluy qui [le] fait renaistre,鈥"听Etudes rabelaisiennes听74 (2001), 341-56.
  • "Naso [ludi] magister erat,"听L鈥橝ntichit脿 nella cultura europea del Medioevo, Reineke, 1998, 105-116.
  • "Montaigne et Tabourot lecteurs du Cratyle,"听Montaigne et l'Histoire des Hell猫nes, Paris: Klincksieck, 1994, 114-23.听听听
Medieval France, England, Italy, Spain, Portugal
  • 鈥淟e savoir proverbial de Salomon,鈥 Le roi Salomon au Moyen Age : savoirs et representations, ed. Jean-Patrice Boudet et al., Turnhout: Brepols, 2020, in preparation.
  • 鈥淏ernart de Ventadorn (fl. ca. 1145-1180), 鈥淛aufre Rudel (fl. 1120-1148),鈥 and 鈥淢arcabru (fl. 1130- 1149),鈥 Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia Online, in preparation. (With Wendy Pfeffer)
  • 鈥淎vant la vida : aux origines de la l茅gende de Jaufre Rudel, grand amour ou petite mort ? Les t茅moignages de Rofian et P茅trarque,鈥 Revue des langues romanes 124 (2020), in preparation.
  • 听鈥淟e dialogue de deux machines de guerre (Toulouse, juin 1218) : de la Canso de la crozada 脿 la tenso de Ramon Escrivan,鈥 听Robots, Androides, Machines : Les automates entre la magie et la technique en litt茅rature depuis l鈥檃ntiquit茅, Amiens: CEM, 2019, in press.
  • 鈥溾橮assatz es le temps鈥el gentils he pros Jauffres de Blaya鈥? La post茅rit茅 de la vida l茅gendaire en Catalogne et en catalan au Moyen Age et aux temps modernes,鈥 La r茅ception des troubadours en Catalogne, Brepols: 2019, in press.
  • 鈥凄别 l鈥檃utodaf茅 脿 l鈥檃nthologie : censure et traduction d鈥橢tienne Durans (1586-1618),鈥 Translatio et histoire des id茅es,听 2019, in press.
  • 鈥淟别蝉 troubadours, entre la Sicile et l鈥橭ccitanie : le cas unique de Perceval Doria,鈥 Etudes m茅di茅vales 20 (2019), in press.
  • 听鈥淒istant Dove and Distant Love: Legendary Love Pilgrims Juda Halevi and Jaufre Rudel on the Poetry of Exile,鈥 Jewish Identity and Comparative Studies / Jud茅it茅 et Comparatisme. Etudes offertes 脿 Astrid Starck-Adler, Amiens: CEM de Picardie, 2019, 151-66.
  • 鈥凄别蝉颈谤颈苍驳,鈥 European Literary History: An Introduction, eds. De Pourcq and Levie, Routledge, 2018, 97-106.
  • 鈥淛ean-Scholastique Pitton lit et relit Jean et C茅sar de Nostredame,鈥 La R茅ception des troubadours en Provence : XVIe-XVIIIe si猫cle, Paris: Garnier, 2018, 137-45.
  • 鈥淪tillicide, or the Waterdrop that Breaks Rock: From 鈥Amor qui tout vainct鈥 to 鈥Todo lo vence el dinero,鈥澨 Ceci n鈥檈st pas une chanson d鈥檃mour: les multiples visages de la po茅sie didactique, Amiens: CEM de la Picardie, 2017,听 213-32.
  • 鈥淟e troubadour Jaufre Rudel de Blaye, homme de voyage : de la Syrie en Italie, Angleterre, Ecosse,鈥 Etudes m茅di茅vales 17-19 (2017), 51-64.
  • 鈥淧ourquoi le cheval parle 脿 son ma卯tre mais les chiens pr茅f猫rent causer entre eux,鈥 Mondes animaliers au Moyen Age et 脿 la Renaissance, Amiens: CEM, 2016, 367-77.
  • 鈥溾赌No.m platz鈥 car 鈥fort m鈥檈noia鈥: ceux que les troubadours ne tol猫rent pas dans leurs enuegs,鈥 Etudes offertes 脿 Danielle Buschinger, Amiens: CEM, 2016, 114-21.
  • 鈥淐omment triompher des Francs 脿 Roncevaux? Une r茅ponse byzantine鈥,鈥 L鈥櫭﹑op茅e : Le h茅ros entre histoire et mythe de l鈥橝ntiquit茅 脿 la Renaissance en Occident, Amiens: CEM, 2015, 304-15.
  • 鈥凄耻 magister au maistre : des vantardises d鈥橭vide au gap du Comte de Poitiers,鈥 Guilhem de Peitieus. Duc d鈥橝quitaine, Prince du Trobar, Cahiers de Ventadour, 2015, 265-74.
  • Le Chevalier Vert, reprise ou refonte de Sire Gauvain ?鈥澨 Le Personnage de Gauvain dans la litt茅rature europ茅enne du Moyen Age, Amiens: CEM, 2015, 271-82.听
  • 鈥淟别蝉 imrama Tristan : voyages de Tristan et du Tristan,鈥 惭茅诲颈茅惫补濒别蝉 15-16 (2014), 94-102.
  • 鈥淕raal Troubadour : Rigaut de Berbezilh,鈥 Le Graal: gen猫se, evolution et avenir d鈥檜n mythe, Amiens: CEM de Picardie, 2014, 290-99.
  • 鈥溾赌Despollatz sotz cobertor鈥: comment faire son lit avec les troubadours?鈥 Etudes m茅di茅vales 15-16 (2014), 211-18.
  • 鈥淔ragments d鈥檜n nouveau manuscript du Tristan en prose,鈥澨 Tristan et Yseut, ou l鈥橢ternel Retour, CEM, 2013, 247-55.
  • 听鈥淎rnaut Daniel parle-t-il le portugais ?鈥, Arnaut Daniel : Joglar, orf猫vre et maistro, Cahiers de Carrefour Ventadour, 2012, 93-106.
  • 听鈥淗elen Waddell at Columbia: Maker of Medievalists.鈥澨Makers of the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of William Calin. Kalamazoo, WMU, 2011, 15-20.
  • 鈥淛aufre Rudel au pluriel,鈥澨Jaufre Rudel : Prince, amant et po猫te, Cahiers de Carrefour Ventadour,听 2011, 103-114.
  • 鈥淧ast Perfect, Future Indefinite: Sir Thomas Malory鈥檚 Morte Darthur.鈥澨Temps et m茅moire dans la litt茅rature arthurienne. Bucharest, University, 2011, 401-408.
  • "La vida es sue帽o: grammaires d鈥檃bsence et de pr茅sence dans la vida sostenguda de Jaufr茅 Rudel.鈥澨La voix occitane. Bordeaux: Presses Universitaires, 2009, 171-84.
  • 鈥淪ainte Eulalie et la belle parole.鈥澨Mourir pour des id茅es. Besan莽on: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comt茅, 2008, 283-97.
  • Short articles, Emmerson and Emmerson,听Key Figures in Medieval Europe, Routledge, 2006.
  • Ubi Sunt? Three Lost (and Found) Ladies in Troubadour Lyric,鈥澨Medieval Constructions in Gender and Identity. Arizona, 2005, 87-102.
  • 鈥淕audairenca,鈥澨Medieval Women: An Encyclopedia, Greenwood, 2004, 355-58.
  • "Fictitious tenso: authentic genre?"L鈥檕ffrande du coeur, University of Canterbury, 2004, 96-107.听听
  • Short entries,听Dante Encyclopedia, New York: Taylor and Francis, 2000.听
  • "The Voiced and the Voiceless in the Cancioneiros,"听La cor贸nica听26 (1998), 65-75.听
  • "Le Chastelain de Couci et les troubadours,"听Le Rayonnement des troubadours, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998, 27-53.
  • "Convivencia and Outsiderhood in Galician-Portuguese,"听Toleranz und Intoleranz im Mittelalter,1997, 83-92.
  • Advisory board member and contributor, Kibler and Zinn,听Medieval France: An Encyclopedia.听New York: Garland, 1995.
  • "Guiraudo lo Ros ou le conventionnalisme exemplaire,"听Les troubadours et l鈥橢tat toulousain, CELO, 1994, 193-210.
  • "Malory laudator temporis acti,"听Temps des fins et fin des temps, Aix-en-Provence, 1993, 457-74.听
  • "Le don du coeur, d鈥橸vain 脿 la chanson de croisade."听Le 鈥楥uer鈥 au Moyen Age. Aix-en-Provence, 1991, 363-74.
  • "Latent Dialogue and Manifest Role-Playing. "听Neuphilologische Mitteilungen听91 (1990), 357-68.
  • "Andalusian and Occitan Love-Lyric."听Zeitschrift fur Romanische Philologie听106 (1990), 338-53.
  • "New Perspectives on Distant Love."听Modern Philology听87 (1990), 225-38.听
  • "Les ann茅es d'apprentissage du troubadour Jaufre Rudel."听Annales du Midi听100 (1988), 7-15.听
  • "Retour aux origines du troubadour Jaufre Rudel."听Studia Mart铆n de Riquer, Barcelona, Quaderns Crema, 1987, 2: 603-11.
  • Short articles.听Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Scribners, 1982-89听听
Renaissance France, England, Italy, Spain, Portugal
  • 鈥凄别 La C茅lestine (1499) 脿 Pantagruel (1532) : Histoire de deux planctus.鈥 Etudes rabelaisiennes 56 (2017), 437-44.
  • 鈥淛aufre Rudel entre mouvance et telephone arabe : 鈥榰n texte en train de se faire鈥 se d茅fait, de Nostredame 脿 Mrs. Thrale (1575-1800),鈥 Occitania en Catalonha; de tempses novels, de nov猫las perspectivas, Generalitat de Catalunya, 2017,听 629-40.
  • 鈥淕lobal Petrarchism in the Global Classroom,鈥 De Christine de Pizan 脿 Hans Robert Jauss. Etudes offertes 脿 Earl Jeffrey Richards, Amiens: CEM de Picardie, 2017, 550-62.
  • 鈥淛aufre Rudel de Blaye 脿 Florence : Dante, P茅trarque, Boccace,鈥 Revue des langues romanes 120 (2016), 185-204.
  • 鈥淓ntre deux Nostredame, Jean (1575) et C茅sar (1614) : Jean Nicot de N卯mes (1606) et Jacques Ferrand d鈥橝gen (1610), lecteurs des Italiens,鈥 La R茅ception des troubadours en Languedoc et en France, XVIe-XVIIIe si猫cle, Paris: Garnier,听 2015, 48-56.
  • 鈥淐rossdressing Medieval Troubadours, Castile to Brazil: Cristobal de Castillejo (d. 1550) and Augusto de Campos (b. 1931),鈥 Relief 8 (2014), 134-51.
  • 鈥淨uand Robert Burns chante Jaufr茅 Rudel,鈥 Los que fan viure e treslusir l鈥檕ccitan, Limoges: Lambert-Lucas, 2014, 705-15.
  • 鈥淏rowne, Borges, and Back: Phantasmagories of Imaginative Learning,鈥澨Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed. Oxford: OUP, 2008, 296-310.
  • "Miquel de la Tor's Songbook in Sixteenth-Century France,"听M茅langes de langue et de litt茅rature m茅di茅vales offerts 脿 Herman Braet, Louvain: Peeters, 2006, 925-43.
  • "Richard the Redeless,"听Travels and Translations in the Sixteenth Century, London: Ashgate, 2004, 137-49
  • "Cervantes et le Cymbalum Mundi:听 loquax canum agmen,"听Le Cymbalum Mundi, Geneva: Droz, 2003, 513-23.
  • "From Polydore Vergil to Shakespeare."听Polidoro Virgili e la cultura humanistica europea, Urbino, 2003,109-39.听听听听听听
  • "Pour une lecture plurielle de l'Heptameron,"听Marguerite de Navarre, Folia Litteraria Romanica, 1997, 117-27.
  • "De l'inconstance th茅matique a une po茅tique de l'inconstance,"听 Neophilologus听72 (1988), 180-90.
  • "Embl茅matique et po茅tique du feu,鈥澨Le Sonnet 脿 la Renaissance.听Paris, 1988, 181-91.
  • "Late Renaissance Petrarchism,"听Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature听27 (1987), 687-701.
  • "Ubica莽茫o e particularismo da l铆ngua de Cam玫es,"听Arquivos do Centro Cultural Portugu锚s听21 (1986), 243-62.听听听

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Modern and Contemporary Europe and Americas
  • 鈥 鈥楤ecause You are 驰辞耻鈥: Jewish Identity and Comparative Studies,鈥 Jewish Identity and Comparative Studies / Jud茅it茅 et Comparatisme. Etudes offertes 脿 Astrid Starck-Adler, Amiens: CEM de Picardie, 2019, XXXVI-XLI.
  • 鈥溾赌楳iss Lo茂s鈥, une comparatiste disciple de Joseph Anglade pendant les ann茅es 1920 : Lois Strong Gaudin (1901-1975),鈥 Cent ans de recherches m茅ridionales 脿 Toulouse: l鈥橧nstitut d鈥櫭﹖udes m茅ridionales, Toulouse : Presses universitaires du Midi, 2018, 317-30.
  • 鈥淓liza Miruna Ghil (1943-2017),鈥 Tenso 33 (2018), 269-72.
  • Troubadours aujourd鈥檋ui : trobadors al segle XX. Le po猫te L茅on Cordes et sa 鈥榯ranslation,鈥欌 Revue des langues romanes, 120 (2016), 301-8.
  • 鈥淢ouvance et traduction : de l鈥檃utre 脿 nous, de l鈥檃utre en nous,鈥 Translatio y cultura, Madrid : Dykinson, 2015, 273-80.
  • Part Lemouzi : les p茅r茅grinations du chat roux de Toulouse (1657) au Br茅sil (2004),鈥 Guilhem de Peitieus. Duc d鈥橝quitaine, Prince du Trobar, Cahiers de Ventadour, 2015, 329-38
  • 鈥淔or Peter Pan and Puer Senex: Lipector鈥檚 Children鈥檚 Literature,鈥 Music and Literature 4 (2014), 101-106, 274.
  • 鈥淟e son du cor au fond du Br茅sil n鈥檈st point triste quand Augusto de Campos donne la r茅plique 脿 Alfred de Vigny,鈥 La m茅moire 脿 l鈥檕euvre. Fixations et mouvances m茅di茅vales, Besan莽on: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comt茅, 2013, 367-81.
  • 鈥淒ystopian Borges: 鈥楾he Lottery in Babylon鈥 and its Utopian Model,鈥 From Francis Bacon to William Golding, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2012, 118-30.
  • 鈥淚nnocents Underground?听Mark Twain Rewrites Poe鈥檚 鈥楳urders in the Rue Morgue.鈥欌澨Edgar Allan Poe: The Bicentennial, 1809-2009. Baia Mare, University, 2011, 51-60.
  • 鈥淢avis Gallant (1922- ) and Gabriel Baum (1935- ) on Ethnodiversity.鈥澨 Managing Diversity and Social Cohesion: The Canadian Experience. Brno, Masaryk University, 2010, 397-401.
  • 鈥淭he End of Insect Imagery: From Dostoevsky to Kobo Ab茅 via Kafka.鈥 Rpt. in听Short Story Criticism听134 (2010), 138-146.
  • Articles on France, Paris, Gorky, McCullers, etc.听The Richard Wright Encyclopedia. Westport: Greenwood, 2008.
  • "The End of Insect Imagery: From Dostoyevsky to Kobo Ab茅 via Kafka."听Insect Poetics. University of Minnesota, 2006, 112-28.
  • Articles on E.E. Cummings, Rub茅n Dar铆o, Jean Nicot, Mark Twain, Richard Wright,听France and the Americas, ABC-Clio, 2005.
  • Articles on Gide, Kafka, Koestler, and Silone,听Dictionary of Literary Influences, Westport: Greenwood, 2004.
  • "L鈥橝mour de loin d鈥橝min Maalouf et Kaija Saariaho,"听Quatre si猫cles de livret d鈥檕p茅ra, Amiens, 2004, 201-8.
  • Articles on Kay Boyle and others,听Encyclopedia of American War Literature, Westport: Greenwood, 2001.
  • "De Rostand a Vercors par D枚blin,"听Vercors et son oeuvre, Paris: Harmattan, 1999, 123-38.
  • "A Medieval Troubadour Mobilized in the French Resistance,"听Journal of the History of Ideas听59 (1998), 499-520.听
  • "Andrew Lang, 1844-1912,"听British Bookmen, Dictionary of Literary Biography 184, 1997, 235-44.
  • "From The Song of Roland to the Songs of Arnaut Daniel [in Modern Brazil],"听Studies in Medievalism听8 (1997), 223-40.
  • "Resistance Literature and the Exilic Imagination,"听Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies听27 (1997), 521-57.
  • "Re(dis)covering Oscar Wilde for Latin America,"听Rediscovering Oscar Wilde, Colin Smythe, 1994, 348-61.
  • "Lispector's Children's Literature," in Diane Marting,听Clarice Lispector, Greenwood, 1993, 159-67.
  • "Nicaraguan Poet as Wandering Jew,"听Latin American Literary Review听35 (1990), 59-70.听听听

Translation and Translations
  • 鈥凄别 l鈥檃utodaf茅 脿 l鈥檃nthologie : censure et traduction d鈥橢tienne Durand (1586-1618),鈥澨Translatio et histoire des id茅es,听 2019, in press.
  • 鈥淢ouvance et traduction : de l鈥檃utre 脿 nous, de l鈥檃utre en nous,鈥澨Translatio y cultura, Madrid : Dykinson, 2015, 273-80.
  • Translations,听The Norton Anthology of Western Literature, 2006;听The Norton Anthology of World Literature, 2002;听The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, 1999.
  • Translations,听Distant Love, Paul Hillier and Andrew Laurence-King, Harmonia Mundi CD 907203, 2000.听听
  • Translations,听Richard Coeur de Lion, Alla Francesca, Centre de Musique Medievale de Paris, Opus 111 CD, 1996.
  • 鈥淭ranslation,鈥澨Handbook to the Troubadours, University of California Press, 1995, 334-38.
  • "Translating the Trobadors,"听Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature听37 (1988), 69-78.
  • Translation of Tzvetan Todorov, "Significance and Meaning,"听Semiotica听 (1981), 113-18.听听
Linguistics and Language听
  • 鈥淥ccitan Language and Troubadour Song in Renaissance France,"听Etudes Peter T. Ricketts, Brepols, 2005, 645-55.
  • "Broadening the Perspectives of South African English and Afrikaans Research,"听Lexikos听3 (1993), 227-58.听
  • "The Jewish Family Name File at the Quarter-Century Mark,"听Onoma听(1993).听听听
  • "Mouvance and the Editor as Scribe: Trascrittore traditore?"听Romanic Review听80 (1989), 157-71.
  • "Jean Nicot's Thresor and Renaissance Multilingual Lexicography,"听Dictionaries听7 (1985), 32-56.听听听

Teaching Writing听
  • "To Write Well Means to Rewrite,"听Scissors and Tooth, Writing Beyond the Discipline, 2 (2008), 45-49.
  • "The Fine Points of Writing,"听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茅cor茅s des Arts et des Lettres (Chevalier, 2012)
  • Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Tau Delta, Phi Sigma Iota, Pi Delta Phi听
  • Member,听Laboratoire d鈥橢dition de Textes M茅di茅vaux, Equipe de recherche E.A. 2554, CNRS, Paris
  • Member,听University of Versailles interdisciplinary research center on the Middle Ages and Renaissance
  • Member,听editorial boards of听 La France latine and听 Ilha do desterro
  • Member,听coordinating board of the American Studies Center, Siauliai University, Lithuania
  • Past Fellow, Whiting, Mellon, and Camargo Foundations听
  • Recipient, NEH, ACLS, CCHA, ENS, USC, SUNY, NYU, UCLA, Fordham, and Fulbright grants
  • Recipient, French government grant听
  • Recipient, Justin O'Brien Memorial Award
  • Recipient, The American University of Paris Distinguished Teaching Award