Robert Levine
bobl@bu.edu
http://people.bu.edu/bobl/
Professor. B.A., CUNY; M.A., Columbia; Ph.D. UC, Berkeley
Teaching and Research Interests: Medieval literature; comparative literature; historical texts as literature.
Selected Publications: “Patronage and Erotic Rhetoric in the Sixth Century: the case of Venantius Fortunatus,” in Words of Love and Love of Words in the Middle Ages and theRenaissance, edited by Albrecht Classen, ACMRS, Tempe, (2008), pp. 75-93; (Transl.) “Mohamlet in Manhattan,” by Albert Ehrenstein, [with Sheldon Gilman], Pusteblume I (Spring 2007), pp. 13-19; (Transl.) The Prose and Verse of Alfred Lichtenstein (2000); (Transl.) A Thirteenth-Century Life of Charlemagne (third volume of Les Grandes Chroniques) (1991); (Transl.) Guibert de Nogent’s Gesta Dei per Francos, Boydell and Brewer (1997); (Transl.) France before Charlemagne (first two volumes of Viard’s edition of Les Grandes Chroniques) (1990); A Thirteenth-Century Minstrel’s Chronicle (Recit d’un menestrel de Reims) (1990); “The Pious Traitor: the Man who Betrayed Antioch” in Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch XXXIII (1998);; “Who composed Havelok for whom?” in Yearbook for English Studies XXII (1992); “Gower as Gerontion; Oneiric Autobiography in the Confessio Amantis,” Medieaevistik 5 (1992); “Baptizing Pirates: Argumentum and Fabula in Norman Historia,” Mediaevisitik 4 (1991); “Prudentius’s Romanus: the rhetorician as hero, martyr and saint,” Rhetorica IX (1991); “Deadly Diatribe in the Récits d'un ménestrel de Reims,” Res Publica Litterarum XIV (1991); “Liudprand of Cremona: History and Debasement in the Tenth Century,” Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch XXVI 1991); “Exploiting Ovid: Medieval Allegorizations of the Metamorphoses,” Medioevo Romanzo XIV (1989); “Satiric Vulgarity in Guibert de Nogent's Gesta Dei per Francos,” Rhetorica 7 (1989); “How to read Walter Map,” Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch XXIII (1988); “Restraining Ambiguities in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyda,” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen LXXXVII (1986); “Why praise Jews; History and Satire in the Middle Ages,” Journal of Medieval History XII (1986); “Myth and Anti-Myth in Cuvelier’s La Vie Vaillante de Bertrand Du Guesclin,” Viator XVI (1985); “Wolfram von Eschenbach: Homo Ludens,” Viator XIII (1982); “Aspects of Grotesque Realism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” Chaucer Review XVII (1982); “The Pearl-Child: Topos and Archetype in the Pearl,” Medievalia et Humanistica VIII (1977); “Repression in Cligès,” Sub/Stance XV (1976); “Ingeld and Christ: a Medieval Problem,” Viator II (1971); (Transl.) Excerpts from Reiner Zimnick’s Die Trömmler für eine Bessere Zeit, in Chelsea Review 3 (1959), pp. 44-56.
Work in Progress: a translation of Else Lasker-Schüler, My Heart (forthcoming).
