Marie Borroff | |
Birth Date: | 10 September 1923 |
Birth Place: | New York City, U.S. |
Death Place: | Branford, Connecticut, U.S.[1] |
Nationality: | American |
Sterling Professor of English | |
Workplaces: | Yale University |
Relatives: | Edith Borroff (sister) |
Marie Edith Borroff (September 10, 1923 – July 5, 2019) was an American poet, translator, and the Sterling Professor of English emerita at Yale University.[2]
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 (Marie Borroff Professor of English).[6]