Rosanna Warren

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Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities, University Professor and Professor of English and Romance Studies

BA, Yale University
MA, Johns Hopkins University


Room 232
617-358-1782

Teaching and Research Interests
  • Poetry; translation
  • Literary biography
  • Literature and the visual arts
  • Relations between classical and modern literature
Selected Publications
  • Ghost in a Red Hat, poems; W.W. Norton (2011)
  • Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry (2008)
  • Euripides, Suppliant Women (with Stephen Scully) (1995)
  • Departure (2003)
  • Stained Glass (1993)
  • Each Leaf Shines Separate (1984)
  • Snow Day (1981)
  • Ed., The Art of Translation: Voices from the Field (1989)
  • “Sappho: Translation as Elegy,” in The Art of Translation
  • “Orpheus the Painter: Apollinaire and Robert Delaunay,”Criticism (1988)
  • “Selected Prose of Gérard de Nerval” (Transl. with commentary), Georgia Review (1983)
  • “The Notes of André Derain” (edited transl. with commentary), Georgia Review (1978)
Work in Progress
  • Literary biography of Max Jacob
Honors, Grants, and Awards
  • Fellowship for 2008–09 at the Cullman Center, New York Public Library
  • Member of the Academy of Arts and Letters
  • Award of Merit, American Academy of Arts and Letters
  • Chancellor of Academy of American Poets
  • Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Witter Bynner Prize, American Academy of Arts and Letters
  • Ellen Maria Gorrissen Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin (Winter 2006)
  • Lannan Foundation Fellowship, Marfa, Texas (Fall 2005)
  • Lila Wallace Readers Digest Award (1994)
  • Lamont Poetry Prize, Academy of American Poets (1993)
  • Ingram Merrill Foundation Award (1993)
  • Lavan Younger Poets Award, Academy of American Poets (1992)
  • Poet in Residence, Robert Frost Farm (1990)
  • ACLS Fellow (1989–90); Guggenheim Fellow (1985–86)
  • Ingram Merrill Grant for Poetry (1983)
  • Nation Discovery Award in Poetry, 92nd Street YMHA-YWHA, NYC (1980)
  • Yaddo Fellowship (1980)
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