Samuel N. Rosenberg
Professor Emeritus of French
Email: srosenbe @indiana.edu
Research areas:
Medieval French language and literature, esp. lyric poetry and Arthurian narrative
Education:
- AB, Columbia College (Columbia University), 1957
- PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, 1965
Background:
Until retirement in 1999, I taught undergraduate and graduate courses in French grammar, composition, translation; history of the French language; Old French lyric poetry; French Arthurian prose; occasionally, history of the Italian language as well. My research activity has centered—and continues to center—on textual edition and translation of trouvère poetry, and on translation and adaptation of Arthurian narrative. Since 2005, I have been Editor of ENCOMIA, the annual publication of the International Courtly Literature Society.
Selected awards:
There is one that truly matters to me: the volume “Chançon legiere a chanter”: Essays on Old French Literature in Honor of Samuel N. Rosenberg, edited by Karen Fresco and Wendy Pfeffer (Birmingham AL: Summa, 2007) — twenty-eight essays by American and French specialists in several areas of medieval French literature.
Publication highlights:
Books
The Old French Ballette. Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 308. With Eglal Doss-Quinby and Elizabeth Aubrey. (Publications romanes et françaises.) Geneva: Droz, 2006; clxii + 546pp.
Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles, or “The Book of Galehaut” Retold. With Patricia Terry. Boston: Godine, 2006; 228pp.
Les Chansons de Colin Muset. Textes et mélodies. With Christopher Callahan. (Classiques Français du Moyen Age.) Paris: Champion, 2005; 240pp.
Chansons des trouvères. With Hans Tischler and Marie-Geneviève Grossel. (Lettres Gothiques.) Paris: Librairie Générale Française, 1995; 1089pp.
Articles
"The Serventois in the Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages: The Ways of Imitation." In Parisian Confraternity Drama of the Fourteenth Century. Ed. Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008; pp. 87-111.
“Colin Muset and Performance.” In Cultural Performances in Medieval France: Essays in Honor of Nancy Freeman Regalado. Ed. Eglal Doss-Quinby, Roberta L. Krueger, and E. Jane Burns. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2007; pp. 15-23.
"Colin Muset and the Question of Attribution." Textual Cultures 1.1 (2006): 29-45.
"Incipit Citation
in French Lyric Poetry of
the 12th-14th Centuries." In
Courtly
Arts and the Art of Courtliness : Selected
Papers from the Eleventh
Triennial Congress of the
International Courtly Literature
Society, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, 29 July—4
August 2004. Ed. Keith Busby
and Christopher Kleinhenz.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer,
2006; pp. 587-600.
