Marie Borroff

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title: "Marie Borroff" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["university-of-chicago-alumni", "yale-university-faculty", "yale-sterling-professors", "2019-deaths", "translators-from-old-english", "20th-century-american-poets", "20th-century-american-translators", "poets-from-new-york-city", "21st-century-american-poets", "21st-century-american-translators", "1923-births", "american-women-medievalists", "american-medievalists", "american-women-academics", "yale-graduate-school-of-arts-and-sciences-alumni", "20th-century-american-women-poets", "21st-century-american-women-poets"] description: "American poet (1923–2019)" topic_path: "society/education" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Borroff" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary American poet (1923–2019) ::

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Field	Value
name	Marie Borroff
image	Marie Borroff.png
birth_date
birth_place	New York City, U.S.
death_date
death_place	Branford, Connecticut, U.S.
nationality	American
occupation
title	Sterling Professor of English
education
workplaces	Yale University
relatives	Edith Borroff (sister)
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| name = Marie Borroff | image = Marie Borroff.png | alt = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = New York City, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = Branford, Connecticut, U.S. | nationality = American | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | title = Sterling Professor of English | education = | workplaces = Yale University | notable_works = | 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.

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

Works

References

References

1. (July 9, 2019). "In Memoriam: Marie Borroff, distinguished scholar of English literature".
2. (2017). "Marie Borroff {{!}} English". Yale University.
3. (2001). "Borroff, Edith {{!}} Grove Music".
4. [http://magazine.uchicago.edu/9608/9608BOBClassnews4.html "Class News", ''The University of Chicago Magazine'']
5. Yale Alumni Publications, Inc.. "Yale Alumni Magazine: emeritus professors (May 2003)".
6. "Yale Office of Public Affairs & Communications". opa.yale.edu.

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