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Rosanna Warren

Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and Fundamentals

Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and Fundamentals

Rosanna Warren is an American poet and scholar. Since 2012, she has been the Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought. 

Her book of criticism, Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry, came out in 2008. Her most recent books of poems are Departure (2003) and Ghost in a Red Hat (2011). In 1995, Oxford University Press published the verse translation of Euripides' The Suppliant Women she composed with Stephen Scully, and her anthology of essays on translation, The Art of Translation: Voices from the Field,appeared in 1989. She is the recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Lila Wallace Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the New England Poetry Club, among others. She was a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1995 to 2005, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.