Born in Brooklyn, educated at Stuyvesant High School, C.C.N.Y., Columbia, and UC Berkeley, Robert Levine has taught English Literature at Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute, Cornell, Brown, Montpellier III and, for the past 36 years, at Boston University. He has published translations from Medieval Latin, Middle French, and modern German. Sheldon Gilman teaches and coordinates all levels of German language courses in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at Boston University, where he earned a Master's degree in German languge and literature in 1966. His special interests are German Romanticism, etymology, teaching methodologies and translation.