Marie Borroff
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Life
Borroff was born in New York City in 1923, the daughter of professional musicians Marie Bergerson and (Albert) Ramon Borroff,[2] and sister of composer Edith Borroff. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA and MA in 1946,[3] 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.[4]
An Endowed Chair at Yale has been named for her (Marie Borroff Professor of English), presently held by Ardis Butterfield.[5]
Works
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References
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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
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