Roberta Frank

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Roberta Frank (born November 9, 1941 in New York City ) is an American philologist of Old English and Old Norse and has been a professor at Yale University since 2000 .

Life

Frank began her studies at New York University , where she received a Bachelor of Arts in English and Comparative Literature in 1962 . She then went to Harvard University , where she completed her Master of Arts degree in 1964 with a Ph.D. in comparative literature in 1968. The title of her dissertation is Wordplay in Old English Poetry . In 1968 Frank became Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and stayed there - from 1973 as Associate Professor and from 1995 as Full Professor - until 2000. Since then, Frank has held the Marie Boroff Chair for English at Yale University.

In her research, Roberta Frank includes not only literary but also other linguistic and tangible (archaeological) evidence. Her goal is to understand their fascination from their effect on the people of that time. She writes enthusiastically and therefore does not shy away from polemics in her mostly essay-based publications, which are also known for their humor. For years they have dealt with the conditions of origin and the authorship of Beowulf and the literary processing and reception of the Battle of Maldon ( The Battle of Maldon ).

She also set accents as a science organizer. For years on the advisory board and contributor to the Dictionary of Old English , Frank was general editor of the Toronto Old English Series from 1976 to 2002 and the Publications of the Dictionary of Old English from 1985 to 2002 . In 1981 Roberta Frank was a founding member of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists , a society she chaired from 1986 to 1988.

She is married to the medievalist Walter A. Goffart .

Works

A comprehensive bibliography from 1970 to 2003 can be found in: Antonia Harbus, Russell Poole (eds.): Verbal Encounters. Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Studies for Roberta Frank. University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2005, pp. 5-12. Important works:

  • together with Angus Cameron and John Leyerle (Eds.): Computers and Old English Concordances. Toronto 1970.
  • together with Angus Cameron (Ed.): A Plan for the Dictionary of Old English. Toronto 1973.
  • Marriage in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Iceland. In: Viator 4 (1973), pp. 473-484.
  • Skaldic Verse and the Date of Beowulf. In: Colin Chase (ed.): The Dating of Beowulf. University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1981 (paperback 1997), pp. 123-139 (reprinted several times).
  • The Beowulf Poet's Sense of History. In: LD Benson, S. Wenzel (Ed.): The Wisdom of Poetry. Essays in Early English Literature in Honor of Morton W. Bloomfield. Kalamazoo 1982, pp. 271-277 (reprinted several times).
  • The Battle of Maldon and Heroic Literature. In: DG Scragg (ed.): The Battle of Maldon AD 991. Oxford 1991, pp. 196-207.
  • (Ed.): The Politics of Editing Medieval Texts. Twenty-Seventh Conference on Editorial Problems. University of Toronto, 1st – 2nd November 1991. New York 1993.
  • Quid Hinieldus cum feminis? The Hero and Women at the End of the First Millennium. In: Teresa Pàroli (ed.): La Funzione dell'Eroe germanico. Storicità, Metafora, Paradigm. Rome 1995, pp. 7-25.
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Philologist. In: The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 96 (1997), No. 4, pp. 486-513.
  • The Discreet Charm of the Old English Weak Adjective. In: Catherine Karkov, George H. Brown (Eds.): Anglo-Saxon Styles. Albany 2003, pp. 239-252.
  • Terminally Hip and Incredibly Cool. Carol, Vikings, and Anglo-Scandinavian England. In: Representations 100 (2007), pp. 23-33.
  • Sharing words with Beowulf. In: Virginia Blanton, Helene Scheck (Ed.): Intertexts. Studies in Anglo-Saxon Culture Presented to Paul E. Szarmach. Tempe 2008, pp. 3-15.

literature

  • Antonina Harbus, Russell Poole: Introduction. In this. (Ed.): Verbal Encounters. Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Studies for Roberta Frank. University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2005, pp. 1-4 (preview on Google Books).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ She attributes that to herself on her university homepage .
  2. ↑ Jonathan Jarrett: Reading Roberta Frank really is a joy, isn't it? , Blog entry by medievalist Jarrett from May 13, 2008.
  3. ↑ See the website ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of society. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.isas.us
  4. ^ Roberta Frank: A Scandal in Toronto. The Dating of, Beowulf 'a Quarter Century On , in: Speculum 82 (2007) 843-864, here p. 844.
personal data
SURNAME Frank, Roberta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philologist, traditional Anglican and Scandinavian scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City