A New Yorker by birth, Professor Rosenstein also holds British and Lithuanian passports. He took his degrees on both sides of the Atlantic: Sorbonne (licence, maîtrise), Harvard (MA), Columbia (PhD). 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 AUP 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’s writing from the U.S., France, Brazil, and elsewhere. For more information, see the Comp Lit blog.
Over fifty presentations on campuses from Turin to Toronto, in dozens of countries from Australia to Zimbabwe.