Marie Borroff
Marie Edith Borroff (born September 10, 1923) is an American poet, translator, and the Sterling Professor of English emerita at Yale University.[1]
Life
Borroff was born in New York City in 1923. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA and MA in 1946,[2] and from Yale University with a Ph.D. in 1956. In 1959, she became the first woman to teach in the English Department at Yale, and in 1965 was the first woman appointed to be a professor of English. She retired in 1994.[3]
She was one of the first two women to be granted tenure in any department in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and in 1991 she became the first woman on the faculty ever to be named a Sterling Professor, the highest honor bestowed on Yale faculty.
An Endowed Chair at Yale has been named for her.[4]
Works
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Stylistic and Metrical Study. Yale University Press. 1963.
- Marie Borroff, ed. (1963). Wallace Stevens; a collection of critical essays. Prentice-Hall.
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: a new verse translation. Translator Marie Borroff. Norton. 1967.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - Pearl: a new verse translation. Translator Marie Borroff. W. W. Norton. 1977. ISBN 978-0-393-09144-1.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - Language and the Poet. University of Chicago Press. 1979. ISBN 978-0-226-06651-6.
- The Endless Knot: Essays on Old and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff. D.S. Brewer. 1995. ISBN 978-0-85991-480-2.
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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - Stars and Other Signs. Yale University Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-300-09570-8.
- Traditions and Renewals: Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Beyond. Yale University Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-300-09612-5.
- Albert Gelpi, ed. (1993). "From "Recent Poetry"". Denise Levertov: selected criticism. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06416-8.
References
- ^ "Department News | English". yale.edu. Retrieved 2014-09-20.
- ^ "Class News", The University of Chicago Magazine
- ^ Yale Alumni Publications, Inc. "Yale Alumni Magazine: emeritus professors (May 2003)". Archived from the original on 2003-05-27. Retrieved 2014-09-20.
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External links
- University of Chicago alumni
- Yale University alumni
- Yale University faculty
- Yale Sterling Professors
- Living people
- Translators from Old English
- American women poets
- Guggenheim Fellows
- American translators
- 20th-century American poets
- 20th-century translators
- 20th-century American women writers
- Poets from New York (state)
- Writers from New York City
- 21st-century American poets
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century translators
- 1923 births