Rosanna Warren
rosanna@bu.edu

Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities, University Professor and Professor of English and Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures. B.A., Yale; M.A., Johns Hopkins

Teaching and Research Interests: Poetry; translation; literary biography; literature and the visual arts; relations between classical and modern literature

Selected Publications: Verse translation, Euripides, Suppliant Women (with Stephen Scully) (1995); poetry: 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; "La fontana e la pietra: Petrarca contemporaneo," Studi e problemi di critica testuale (2006); "The Contradictory Classicist: the Poetry of Frank Bidart," The Threepenny Review (2002); "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: Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry, literary criticism (forthcoming), Literary biography of Max Jacob; Mistral, a collection of poems.

Honors, Grants, and Awards: Member of the Academy of Arts and Letters; Award of Merit, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 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)

 

* Photograph taken by Mike Minehan