Peter Dembowski
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
1115 E. 58th Street.
Chicago, IL 60637
Office: Wieboldt 411
Phone: 773/702-8481
Email: p-dembowski@uchicago.edu
Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Peter Dembowski focuses on the linguistic and literary studies of Medieval French and Provençal. His interests include history of Romance languages with special consideration of Medieval French, as well as on the problems of critical edition and interpretation of Medieval texts. His books and critical editions of Old French texts include: La Chronique de Robert de Clari ( Toronto 1963); Ami et Amile (Paris 1969) crit. ed.; La Vie de sainte Marie l'Egyptienne (Geneva -Paris 1977) crit. ed.; Jean Froissart and his Meliador (Lexington , 1983); Le Paradis d'amour et l'Orloge amoureus, (Genva 1986) crit. ed.; Jourdain de Blaye ( Paris 1991) crit. ed.; Erec et Enide ( Paris , 1994) crit. ed.; L'Estrif de Fortune et Vertu, ( Geneva 1999) crit. ed.; Christians in the Warsaw Ghetto. An Epitaph for the Unremembered (2005).
Education
- PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley, 1960.
Awards, Honors, and Professional Experience
- Fellow American Academy of Arts and Science
- Chevalier de l'Ordre de Palmes académiques
- Recipient of the Norman Maclean Faculty Award
- Recipient of a Festschrift: Philologies Old and New. Essays in Honor of Peter Florian Dembowski
Selected Courses Taught
Courses on most of the literary genres of old French; Introduction to Romance Historical Linguistics; Introduction to Old Provençal.