Deborah Sinnreich-Levi - Associate Professor
	Associate Professor Director, Certificate Program in Professional Communications Director, Humanities Resource Center Email: dsinnrei@stevens.edu Phone:  (201) 216-5403 Fax: (201) 216-8245 Office: Morton 208
Research Interests Medieval comparative literature especially 14th century French poetics; Rhetoric, composition and professional communications

Much of my research has focused on the 14th century poet Eustache Deschamps and includes editions and translations -- the first into English -- of this important poet. Deschamps wrote the first ars poetica in French in 1392 almost 200 years before the first such English treatise. Contemporaneous with Chaucer, Machaut and Christine de Pizan, Deschamps was a courtier-poet who knew the most powerful political people of his day. My work also includes edited collections on medieval rhetorical practices. Finally, as director of graduate and undergraduate writing and communications programs, and director of the Humanities Resource Center, I have been interested in rhetoric and composition especially in technical situations and assisted by new technologies.

Education

Ph.D., The Graduate School and University Center, C.U.N.Y., 1987
M.A., The Graduate School and University Center, C.U.N.Y., 1986
M.Ph., The Graduate School and University Center, C.U.N.Y., 1985
The Summer Latin Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, 1980
B.A., magna cum laude, Queens College, C.U.N.Y., Phi Beta Kappa, 1978

Publications

Selected Poetry of Eustache Deschamps. Co-eds. and co-trs. I.S. Laurie, David Curzon, Jeffrey Fiskin. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Reconstructive Polyphony: Studies in the Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages. Co-ed. John Hill. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000.

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.

Co-editor. 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.

In Progress
Le Miroir de Mariage. Co-eds. and co trs. Ian S. Laurie and R. Barton Palmer. Pegasus Press, 2007.

Honors, Awards, Grants

2004 $11,400 Technogenesis Summer Prize
2003 $1,000 Jess H. David Memorial Research Award
2003 $14,250 Technogenesis Summer Scholars/Summer Prize
2002 $9,500 Technogenesis Summer Scholars/Summer Prize
2001 $9,500 Technogenesis Summer Scholars
1998 "Outstanding Professor" Award
1997 Alexander Crombie Humphreys Assoc. Prof. Distinguished Teaching Award
1997 $10,000 for the Humanities Resource Center from the Hyde & Watson Foundations
1993-94 $25,000 for a Russian Cultural Exchange Program from the Greve Foundation
1993 $100,000 for the Samuel, Minerva and David Lee Humanities Resource Center
1993 $25,000 for the Humanities Resource Center's construction from John Kidde
1992 $50,000 for the Humanities Resource Center from the Charles Hayden Foundation

Courses Taught

HUM 103 / 104: Freshman Writing and Humanities I & II
HLI 113 / 114: Western Literature I & II
HUM 301: Seminar in Writing and Research Methods
HLI 321: Literature, Science and Technology
HLI 331: Shakespeare
HLI 334: Chaucer, A Literary Study
HLI 337: History of the English Language
HLI 410: Survey of Medieval Literature
HLI 412: Medieval Romance: The Rise of the Individual
HLI 413: Literature by Women: The Tradition in English
HLI 416: Arthuriana: The Legend of King Arthur
HLI 417: Survey of English Literature

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