Marie Borroff

• Name — Marie Borroff • Born — 10 September 1923 • Birthplace — New York City, U.S. • Died — 5 July 2019 • Place of death — Branford, Connecticut, U.S. • Occupation — * Poet • translator • professor • Title — Sterling Professor of English • Education — * University of Chicago (B.A., M.A.) • Yale University (Ph.D.) • Workplaces — Yale University • Relatives — Edith Borroff (sister)

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 (Marie Borroff Professor of English), presently held by Ardis Butterfield.

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• "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