Marie Borroff

Marie Borroff
Born	(1923-09-10)September 10, 1923 New York City, U.S.
Died	Branford, Connecticut, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Poet translator professor
Title	Sterling Professor of English
Academic background
Education	University of Chicago (B.A., M.A.) Yale University (Ph.D.)
Academic work
Institutions	Yale University

Marie Edith Borroff (10 September 1923 – 5 July 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.

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