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Roberta Frank

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American philologist

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According to Wikipedia, Roberta Frank is an American philologist specializing in Old English and Old Norse language and literature. She is the Marie Borroff Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University. Career Frank received a B.A. in comparative literature from New York University in 1962 and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard University in 1968. Her doctoral dissertation was titled Wordplay in Old English Poetry. Frank taught at the University of Toronto beginning in 1968, from 1978 as a full professor and from 1995 as University Professor. She was awarded a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1985. At Toronto, she was involved with the Dictionary of Old English project and served as Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies .

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