Marie Borroff

Marie Edith Borroff (September 10, 1923 – July 5, 2019) was an American

Borroff was born in New York City in 1923, the daughter of professional musicians Marie Bergerson and (Albert) Ramon Borroff,^[3] and sister of composer Edith Borroff. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA and MA in 1946,^[4] 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.^[5]

An Endowed Chair at Yale has been named for her.^[6]

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)
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• Language and the Poet. University of Chicago Press. 1979.
  ISBN 978-0-226-06651-6
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• 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
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• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Patience ; and Pearl: verse translations. Translator Marie Borroff. W.W. Norton. 2001.
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• Stars and Other Signs. Yale University Press. 2002.
  ISBN 978-0-300-09570-8
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• Traditions and Renewals: Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Beyond. Yale University Press. 2003.
  ISBN 978-0-300-09612-5
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• ISBN 978-0-472-06416-8
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