Bruce Rosenstock is Associate Professor of Religious Studies. He obtained his Ph.D. in Classics at Princeton University. His recent publications include: New Men: Converso Religiosity in the Fifteenth Century, a monograph dealing with the two most important converso Churchmen of 15th-century Spain, (Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, series ed. Alan Deyermond, 2003); "Mourning and Melancholia: Reading the Symposium" (Philosophy and Literature (28.2, 2004); and "Capra Contra Schmitt: Two Traditions of Political Romanticism" (Theory & Event 8:4, 2005). Professor Rosenstock's book, Philosophy and the Jewish Question: Mendelssohn, Rosenzweig, and Beyond was published in late 2009 by Fordham University Press.

Professor Rosenstock also maintains the largest digital library of Jewish folk literature in the world: Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews (www.sephardifolklit.org). Professor Rosenstock was Principal Investigator together with Professor Samuel Armistead (UC Davis) on a National Science Foundation grant that supported the digitization and transcription of audio tapes of Sephardic folk literature (medieval ballad songs, wedding songs, religious songs, and memorates) made by Professor Armistead and his collegues over four decades. Professor Rosenstock supervised the creatiion of the digital library, wrote the software to deliver the material over the web, and assured that the transcriptions complied witth the rigorous standards of the Text Encoding Initiative principles.

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Courses Taught Recently
RLST 108/109 Religion & Society in the West I/II
RLST 205 Intensive Biblical Hebrew / Intro to Classical Hebrew I
RLST 451 Postmodern Religious Thought