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.

Life

Borroff was born in New York City in 1923, the daughter of professional musicians Marie Bergerson and (Albert) Ramon Borroff, and sister of composer Edith Borroff. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA and MA in 1946, 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. In 1965, she was the first woman appointed to be an English professor. She retired in 1994.

An Endowed Chair at Yale has been named for her.

Works

References

External links

"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (lines 1-19)", Norton Anthology of English Literature Guest lecture on Wallace Stevens focusing on the poem The Auroras of Autumn (part of Open Yale Courses). BorroffReadingGawain.com

University of Chicago alumni

Yale University faculty

Yale Sterling Professors

2019 deaths

Translators from Old English

American women poets

20th-century American poets

20th-century American translators

20th-century American women writers

Poets from New York City

21st-century American poets

21st-century American women writers

21st-century American translators

1923 births

Women medievalists

American women academics

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni