Henry Weinfield

Professor
Program of Liberal Studies

Degrees

B.A., City College of New York; M.A., State University of New York at Binghamton; Ph.D., The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Research Profile

Weinfield is a poet, translator, and literary scholar. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including most recently Without Mythologies: New and Selected Poems and Translations (Dos Madres, 2008). He has also published a translation of and commentary on the Collected Poems of Stephane Mallarme (University of California Press, 1995) and, in collaboration with Catherine Schlegel of the Notre Dame Classics Department, a translation of Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days (University of Michigan Press, 2006).  In addition, he is the author of a literary study, The Poet Without a Name: Gray's Elegy and the Problem of History (Southern Illinois UP, 1991) and of many articles on English and American poetry. His study, The Music of Thought in the Poetry of George Oppen and William Bronk, will be published by the University of Iowa Press in the spring of 2009 and his poem/translation "The Book of Elijah" (based on 1st and 2nd Kings) is forthcoming from Shofar. He is currently working on a study of the blank-verse tradition in English poetry from Milton to Stevens. 

Contact Information

379 Decio Faculty Hall
631-7483
hweinfie@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~pls/faculty/Weinfield.html