Roberta Teale Swartz Chalmers (9 June 1903 in Brooklyn, New York – 13 May 1993[1] in Wellesley, Massachusetts) was an American academic, a poet, and co-founder of the Kenyon Review.

Roberta Teale's first appointment was as an English teacher at Bancroft School, Worcester, Massachusetts in 1926-27.

From there, she went on to become instructor in English at Mount Holyoke College, and was promoted to assistant professor in 1931.

She left Mount Holyoke in 1934 on her husband's selection as president of Rockford College, where she served as associate professor of English.

On his selection as president of Kenyon College in 1937, she eventually served as associate professor there in 1942-45.