Sheli and Burton Rosenberg Professor: Rita Copeland	Print Issue
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Dr. Rita Copeland of the department of classical studies has been named the Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor in the School of Arts & Sciences. Her research interests span many fields and periods and include medieval literature; intellectuals, learning and literacy in medieval Europe; the reception of classical traditions in medieval and early modern Europe; literary theory from ancient to early modern; and the history of rhetoric.

Dr. Copeland has a secondary appointment in the department of English and is a member of the Graduate Group in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, of which she is a former chair. Dr. Copeland recently co-authored Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory AD 300-1475 with Ineke Sluiter and co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Allegory with Peter Struck, associate professor of classical studies. Her previous books include Pedagogy, Intellectuals and Dissent in the Later Middle Ages: Lollardy and Ideas of Learning and Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages. Additionally, she is the co-founder and co-editor of the Medieval Cultures Series from the University of Minnesota Press.

In fall 2010, Dr. Copeland was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem and worked in the research group, Encountering Scripture. She is a fellow at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.

This chair was established by Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg, C’63. Mr. Rosenberg is a partner in the law firm of Seyfarth Shaw in Chicago. Mrs. Rosenberg is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University and is the co-founder and president of the initiative for the University’s new Center for Executive Women at the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School.