Deborah Sinnreich-Levi

Deborah Sinnreich-Levi is an American scholar of medieval literature who specializes in the work of the French 14th-century poet Eustache Deschamps and was called a "pioneer in the revival of interest in Deschamps", a poet who had long been neglected.^[1] Sinnreich-Levi received her B.A. from Queens College, City University of New York and her graduate degrees (Ph.D., M.A., M.Ph.) from Graduate Center, CUNY; her doctorate was granted in 1987. She attended the Summer Latin Workshop at University of California, Berkeley, in 1980. From 1990-2024, she taught at Stevens Institute of Technology.^[2] She continues to be the Vice President of TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies), and Managing Editor of The Once and Future Classroom, TEAMS' on-line, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to all aspects of teaching medieval studies.

She edited and translated Deschamps' L’Art de dictier et de fere chancons, balades, virelais et rondeaulx, his treatise on verse.^[1]

Selected bibliography

• Selected Poetry of Eustache Deschamps.  Co-eds. and co-trs. I.S. Laurie, David Curzon, Jeffrey Fiskin.  New York: Routledge, 2003.
• The Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages:  Reconstructive Polyphony:  Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne.  Co-ed. John Hill.  Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000.^[3]  
• The French and Occitan Middle Ages:  Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 208. Co-ed. I.S. Laurie.  Columbia, SC: Bruccoli, Clark Layman, Inc., 1999.
• Editor, Eustache Deschamps, French Courtier-Poet:  His Work and His World.  Intros. Stephen Nichols and Glending Olson.  New York: AMS Press, 1998.
• Eustache Deschamps' L'Art de dictier.  East Lansing, MI:  Colleagues Press, 1994.
• Voices in Translation:  The Authority of "Olde Bookes" in Medieval Literature:  Essays in Honor of Helaine Newstead.  Intros. Allen Mandelbaum and Frederick Goldin. Co-ed. Gale Sigal.  New York:  AMS Press, 1992.

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