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Roberta Frank was born on 1941 in New York City, U.S., is an American linguist. Discover Roberta Frank's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?
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United States
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Who Is Roberta Frank's Husband?
Her husband is Walter Goffart (m. 1977)
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Roberta Frank Net Worth
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Roberta Frank (born 1941) 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.
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 co-founded the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (now the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England) in 1981 serving as First Vice-President (1985-1986), then as its president (1986–87).
Frank was born in the Bronx.
Frank's research draws upon archaeological as well as literary and linguistic evidence to analyze aspects of early English and Scandinavian texts.
Her work has focused on the poetry of England and Scandinavia, including numerous publications on skaldic verse, the early North, and Beowulf.
Two festschriften in her honor have been published: Verbal Encounters: Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Studies, ed.
She was awarded a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1985.
Frank was elected a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 1989, serving as the President of that Academy in 2006, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1995.
At Toronto, she was involved with the Dictionary of Old English project and served as Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies (1994–99).
In 2000, she joined the Department of English Language and Literature at Yale University, first as the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English and then, in 2008, as the Marie Borroff Professor of English.
She is also a senior research fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.
Antonina Harbus and Russell Poole (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005) and The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History, ed.
Eric Weiskott and Irina Dumitrescu (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2019).
Her latest book, The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse, appeared in early 2022.
