Leonard Rosmarin

Leonard Rosmarin, born in Montreal, 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, and links between opera and literature.^[1][2]

Biography

Rosmarin earned a doctorate from Yale University where he began his teaching career in 1964. He became assistant professor at Wesleyan University, also in Connecticut.^[3]

In 1969, he returned to Canada to take up a position as associate, then full professor at Brock University.

Rosmarin has been decorated twice by the Government of France for distinguished service in the cause of French letters.^[4]

Books

• Elie Wiesel ou le refus du désespoir, Editions du Grand-Pré, 2011
• Getting Enough, Strategic Book Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1606934104^[5]
• 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