CURRICULUM VITAE
DONALD M. ROSENBERG
Date and Place of Birth
February 27, 1934
Detroit, Michigan
Education
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, B.A. (Biology), 1956
Wayne State University, Detroit, M.A., 1957
Wayne State University, Detroit, Ph.D., 1965
Dissertation:
"Milton and the Laughter of God"
Director: Ralph Nash
Teaching Appointments
Graduate Assistant, Wayne State University, 1957-60.
Instructor, Mayville State College of North Dakota, 1961.
Chairman and Assistant Professor, Mayville State College of
North Dakota, 1962-63.
Instructor, Dartmouth College, 1963-65.
Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, 1965-69
Associate Professor of English, Michigan State University,
1969-79.
Professor of English, Michigan State University, 1979present.
I.
Courses Taught: English
242, 351, 352, 366,
422, 441, 452, 455,
824, 828, 862, 970,
II.
New Courses:
105,
375,
456,
981,
205, 206,
380, 381,
491-492H,
and 985.
207, 208, 213,
399, 411, 412,
493-494H, 499,
229,
421,
811,
English 399: Literature and Medicine
English 493-494H: The Epic from Homer to Milton
English 491-492H: (co-taught with Prof. Tavormina):
Religious Literature Before and After the Reformation
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III. Publications
A. Scholarly Books:
Oaten Reeds and Trumpets: Pastoral and
Epic in Virgil, Spenser, and Milton.
Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press,
1981.
B. Scholarly Articles:
"Theme and Structure in Milton's Autobiographies."
Genre. II (December 1969), 314-325.
"Milton's Masque: A Social Occasion for Philosophic
Laughter." Studies in Philology, LXVII (April 1970),
245-253.
"Parody of style in Milton's Polemics." Milton Studies
II (1970), 113-118.
"Satirical Techniques in Milton's Polemical Prose."
Satire Newsletter, 16 (Spring 1971) 91-97.
"Style and Meaning in Milton's Anti-Episcopal Tracts."
Criticism. XV (Winter 1973), 43-57.
"Milton, Dryden, and the Ideology of Genre."
Comparative Drama, 21 (Spring 1987), 1-18.
"Samson Agonistes: 'Proverb'd for a Fool.'" The
Centennial Review, 32 ( Winter 1988), 65-78.
"Milton's Paradise Lost and the Country Estate Poem."
Clio. XVIII (Winter 1989), 123-134.
"Epic Warfare in Cowley and Milton." Forthcoming in
Clio.
C.
Book Reviews:
James Thorpe, John Milton: The Inner Life (1983), in The
Centennial Review, 28, 2 (Spring 1984), 156-157.
David Daiches, God and the Poets (1984), in
Centennial Review, 29, 3 (Summer 1985), 379-381.
The
Ronald R. Macdonald, The Burial-Places of Memory: Epic
Underworld in Vergil, Dante, and Milton, in The
Centennial Review, 32 (Spring 1988).
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D. Poetry:
"On 'Still Life with Parrots' by Jan de Heem." Epoch, 19
(Fall 1969), 83.
"Peyote Country" and "Deus ex Machina." The Midwest
Review. 11 (April 1970), 281-282
"Meditation on an Esso Map." Western Review, 7 (Spring
1970), 79.
"A Marker for Those Killed in Action." Chicago Tribune
Magazinef 5 July 1970, p. 14.
"Shaker Village," "The Whales," "Night Song for
Puritans," "On a Snapshot of GIs Taken in World War II,"
"Coleridge Near Porlock," "The Jewish Silversmiths of
Aragon," "The Garden," "Moving Pictures of the Royal
Family," and "The Tabloids." Doctor Generosity's
Almanac: 17 Poets. ed. Ray Freed. 1970. 57-63.
"The Last Days of Delius." Poet Lore, 46 (Spring 1971),
97
"The Sleepers."
Bitterroot. 38 (Winter 1972), 33.
"On William Bartram's Journey into Florida." December,
13 (1972), 155.
"Silent Comedies," "Let This Be a Zen Garden,"
"Waxworks," "In Praise of Sabatino Rodia's Watts Towers,"
and "Tableau at the Beach." Red Cedar Review, 8 (Spring
1972), 47-51.
"North Dakota Water Tower." Concerning Poetry. 6 (Spring
1973), 52.
"An Ox-Pull at the County Fair."
1973), 173.
"Ape."
Poet Lore, 68 (Summer
Garfield Lake Review, 4 (Spring 1974), 12.
"Coleridge Near Porlock." The Georgia Review, 28 (Spring
1974), 145.
"Blue Angel, 193 0" and "On an Old Caruso Record."
Illinois Quarterly, 37 (September 1974), 46, 64.
"The Valley of Shinar."
Quartet, 7 (Spring 1975), 26.
"An Aerial View of Holiday Craft." Quartet, 7 (SpringSummer 1976), 11.
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Poetry (continued):
"Final Performance of the Wild West Show at Coney Island"
and "Hatikvah, Song of Hope: 1944." Red Cedar Review,
XI, 1 (January 1977), 20, 32.
"The Barn." Hiram Poetry Review, XXI (Fall-Winter 1977),
30.
The Old Hotel Metropole." The Centennial Review, XXI, 2
(Spring 1977), 154.
"Vachel Lindsay's America." Ball State University Forum
(Spring 1977), 2.
"Helmet, Spear, and Armor." The Cape Rock
(Summer 1977), 21.
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XII, 2
"The Painted Caves." Ball Sate University Forum, 19, 2
(Spring 1978), 2.
"Prairie Harvest." The Cape Rock, XIII, 2 (Summer 1978,
37.
"Civil War Battleground." The Cape Rock, XV, 1 (Winter
1979), 5.
"A Reward Poster at the Mail Office" and "Last Stop is
New Lots," Mississippi Mud, 23 (Spring 1981), 10-11.
"Ahab's Wife, " New Mexico Humanities Review, 4, 3 (Fall
1981), 56.
Freud's Study: 19 Bergasse," Mississippi Mud, 2 4 (Fall
1981), 21.
"Manta Ray" and "Halfwit," Ball State University Forum.
22 (Autumn 1981), 22; 47.
Ellis Island," Laurel Review, 18, 1 (Winter 1984), 25.
"Judenstrasse," "Treasures of the British Museum," and
"State Trunk Line: Points North." Way Station f I
(1990), 9.
"Furnished Room Four Floors Up" and "Antarctic Island."
Way Station, II (1991), 8.
"Olympic Brass Band."
Forthcoming in Karamu.
"A Chair for the Invisible Prophet."
Jewish Currents.
Forthcoming in
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IV.
Undergraduate and Graduate Tutorials:
Undergraduate:
V.
4 6
Graduate:
3 5
Other Contributions:
1971:
197 3:
1974:
Renaissance Literature course taught at JMC.
Poetry Reading at the Union.
Participant in the Summer Bicentennial Program.
Two lectures on contemporary poetry for visiting
foreign students.
1975:
London Summer Program.
1976:
"How I Write" for "Teaching Poetry-'76."
1977:
Participant in CIEE/Japanese University Faculty
Program.
1979:
Poetry Reading - Union Building.
1980:
Participant in Medical Humanities Program.
1981-87: Reader for The Centennial Review.
1982:
Poetry Reading at Hillel House.
1983:
London Summer Program.
1986-87: Literary Judge for the East Lansing Education
Foundation.
1986:
Reviewer for All-University Initiation Grant.
1988:
AEGS Poetry Reading on May 13, 1988.
VI.
Committee Services:
Department of English, Policy Committee - 1977-78; 1980-81;
1982-83; 1984-85; 1985-86; 1991-93.
Department of English, Graduate Committee - 1978-79; 197980.
Department of English, Curriculum Committee 1977-78; 1979-80; 1980-81; 1981-82;
1982-83; 1987-90; (Acting Chair - Fall
1990).
Department of English, Committee on Teaching (Chair) - 197787.
Department of English, Forms and Masterpieces Committee 1987-90.
Department of English, Ad hoc Committee on the Constitution
- 1973.
Chair, Department of English, Search and Rating Committee
for New Chairperson - 1986.
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VI.
Committee Services (continued):
College of Arts and Letters Advisory Council - 1989-90.