Leonard Rosmarin
Leonard Rosmarin 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.
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.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.