 | Roberta Frank |
Roberta Frank, the inaugural Marie Borroff Professor of English, is a scholar of the literature and history of northwest
Europe in the early medieval period (700-1100), with a particular focus on
Anglo-Saxon England and Viking Scandinavia.
T H I S
Roberta Frank named the first
Marie Borroff Professor
She also studies Old English poetic style, Northern legend, Victorian and 20th-century
medievalisms, and the afterlife of Tacitus. She authored the book “Old
Norse Court Poetry: The Dróttkvætt Stanza” and edited “The
Politics of Editing Medieval Texts.” She co-edited “Computers and
Old English Concordances” and “A Plan for the Dictionary of Old
English,” and has served as a general editor of the “Toronto Old
English Series,” published by the University of Toronto Press, and of “Publications
of the Dictionary of Old English,” published by the Pontifical Institute
of Medieval Studies.
Frank came to Yale in 2000 as the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English
after teaching for more than three decades at the University of Toronto, where
she was the University Professor. A graduate of New York University, she earned
her master’s and doctoral degrees at Harvard University. She has been
a visiting professor at the University of Jaen in Spain, the British Academy,
the University of Sydney in Australia, the Universitá degli Studi di
Roma and the University of California, Berkeley.
A fellow of the Medieval Academy of America (which awarded her its Elliott
Prize in 1972) and of the Royal Society of Canada, Frank has also been honored
with the Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio) Residency and a Guggenheim Fellowship,
among other grants and fellowships.
The Marie Borroff Professorship was established this year in honor of Yale’s
first female faculty member in the Department of English. Borroff, a Sterling
Professor Emerita, is a scholar of “the language of poetry and the poetry
of language,” as she describes her interests. Her many articles and books
include translations of three works by the so-called Gawain or medieval “Pearl-poet.”
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