Marie Borroff

Marie Edith Borroff (September 10, 1923 – July 5, 2019) was 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, the daughter of professional musicians Marie Bergerson and (Albert) Ramon Borroff,[2] and sister of composer Edith Borroff. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA and MA in 1946,[3] 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.[4]

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 academic rank at Yale University.

An Endowed Chair at Yale has been named for her.[5]

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.CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Pearl: a new verse translation. Translator Marie Borroff. W. W. Norton. 1977. ISBN 978-0-393-09144-1.CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Language and the Poet. University of Chicago Press. 1979. ISBN 978-0-226-06651-6.
  • Marie Borroff; Mary Teresa Tavormina; Robert F. Yeager, eds. (1995). The Endless Knot: Essays on Old and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff. D.S. Brewer. ISBN 978-0-85991-480-2.
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Patience ; and Pearl: verse translations. Translator Marie Borroff. W.W. Norton. 2001. ISBN 978-0-393-97658-8.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
  1. "Marie Borroff | English". Yale University English. Yale University. 2017. Archived from the original on 2 November 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  2. Regier, Janet (2001). "Borroff, Edith | Grove Music". www.oxfordmusiconline.com. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.03627. Retrieved 2019-10-26.
  3. "Class News", The University of Chicago Magazine
  4. Yale Alumni Publications, Inc. "Yale Alumni Magazine: emeritus professors (May 2003)". Archived from the original on 2003-05-27. Retrieved 2014-09-20.
  5. "Yale Office of Public Affairs & Communications". opa.yale.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-07-26. Retrieved 2014-09-20.
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