Yopie Prins

Yopie Prins at Big Sur, California September 2016

Yopie Prins is Irene Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Her research includes classical reception, comparative literature, historical poetics, lyric theory, translation studies and Victorian poetry.[1][2]

Prins studied ancient Greek at Swarthmore College, and English literature at Newnham College, Cambridge. She spent a year at the University of Amsterdam as a Fulbright Scholar, before gaining a PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton in 1991. She taught for four years at Oberlin College before joining the faculty of the University of Michigan.[3] Having taught at the University of Michigan since 1994, she is currently the Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature there.[2] She was the vice president of the American Association for Comparative Literature from 2013 to 2015, and president from 2015 to 2016.[3]

Prins is married to the American composer Michael Daugherty.[4]

Publications

  • Prins, Yopie (2017). Ladies’ Greek: Victorian Translations of Tragedy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.[1]
  • Prins, Yopie (1999). Victorian Sappho. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

References

  1. 1 2 Emily Wilson (7 July 2017), "Found in translation: how women are making the classics their own", The Guardian
  2. 1 2 Yopie Prins: Department of Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, retrieved 15 September 2017
  3. 1 2 Yopie Prins: Home page, University of Michigan, retrieved 15 September 2017
  4. ↑ Kathryn Shattuck (14 May 2000), "A Symphonist of Elvis and Barbie", New York Times
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