Leonard Rosmarin
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Leonard Rosmarin (born in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian professor of French literature and a novelist. He is the former Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.
Rosmarin is a specialist of seventeenth century French literature, Franco-Jewish literature and links between opera and literature.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Rosmarin earned a doctorate from Yale University where he began his teaching career in 1964. He became assistant professor at Wesleyan University in 1966, also in Connecticut.[3]
In 1969, he returned to Canada to take up a position as associate, then full professor at Brock University. He was Visiting Professor at the School for Doctoral Studies at the Université de Perpignan over a ten-year period from 1992 till 2002. He was also during that period the Director of Brock University's Third-Year Study Program in France at the Université de Perpignan. He was also Chair of the Dept. of Modern Languages at Brock University, completing three mandates including in his final year at the university.
He was the only Canadian scholar invited by the prestigious French publishing house, Albin-Michel, to participate in the creation of the huge "Histoire juive de la France," along with illustrious academics from around the western world.
Rosmarin has been decorated twice by the Government of France for distinguished service in the cause of French letters <Leonard Rosmarin</ref>
Books
[edit]- Words of Witness, The Fiction of Élie Wiesel, Mosaic Press, 2023.
- Getting Enough, Strategic Book Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1606934104[4]
- Liliane Atlan ou la quête de la forme divine, L'Harmattan : Editions du Gref, 2004
- When Literature becomes Opera : Study of a Transformational Process, Rodopi Bv Editions, 1999, ISBN 978-9042006942
- Robert Pinget, Twayne publishers, 1995, ISBN 978-0805745375
- Exilés, marginaux et parias dans les littératures francophones, L'Harmattan : Editions du Gref, 1994
- Albert Cohen, témoin d'un peuple, Editions du Grand-Pré, 1992
- Emmanuel Levinas, humaniste de l'autre homme, L'Harmattan : Editions du Gref, 1991, ISBN 978-0921916130
- Saint-Evremond, artiste de l'euphorie, Summa publications, 1987, ISBN 978-0917786525
References
[edit]- ^ Salon du livre de Paris
- ^ "AAOF". Archived from the original on 2016-04-30. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
- ^ Personal website
- ^ Author inspired by his Jewish family in Montreal
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