About John D. Rosenberg
Lived 1929 – 2019 (aged 89–90). John D. Rosenberg was a teacher.
John D. Rosenberg (April 17, 1929 – 2019) was an American scholar of Victorian literature. He was William Peterfield Trent Professor of English at Columbia University.
Biography Rosenberg was born in New York City on April 17, 1929, and attended Columbia College, where he worked as Lionel Trilling's research assistant during his senior year, serving as a courier between Trilling and Jacques Barzun in Hamilton Hall.
He taught at the City College of New York and was appointed an assistant professor at Columbia in 1962 before becoming a full professor in 1967.
He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968. Rosenberg died in 2019 at age 90.
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