About Rosalie Colie Rosalie L. Colie (1924-1972) studied at Vassar and Columbia and taught at Barnard, Oxford, Yale, Toronto, and Brown. At the time of her death in 1972 she was chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Books by Rosalie Colie Some Facets of King Lear Essays in Prismatic Criticism edited by Rosalie Colie & F.T. Flahiff