Dan Rosenberg teaches literature, creative writing, and composition at CMU, and his research areas include poetry, literary translation and translation theory, and the intersection of verbal and visual art.
He believes that each class is an opportunity to help his students pursue what Susan Sontag described as the goal of literature: "to extend our sympathies; to educate the heart and mind; to create inwardness; to secure and deepen the awareness (with all its consequences) that other people, people different from us, really do exist." He tries to live up to these goals himself.
Rosenberg is the author of three full-length poetry collections, two poetry chapbooks, and one collaborative poetry micro-chapbook. He also co-translated Slovenian poet Miklavž Komelj's Hippodrome. His poems have won the American Poetry Journal Book Prize and the Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest.
Rosenberg holds an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a PhD from The University of Georgia, where he was a Presidential Fellow. Until the closure of Wells College in 2024, he served as chair of the English department there. He also coordinated the Wells College Visiting Writers Series and edited the Wells College Press Chapbook Contest. He was named the 2025 Tompkins County Poet Laureate and served as a Senior Visiting Lecturer at Cornell University.
Rosenberg co-curates the virtual Yetzirah Reading Series, advises CMU’s Lit Review, and more. He lives in Fruita, CO, with the poet Alicia Rebecca Myers, their son, and their medium good dog.