She subsequently taught at Vassar College (1957–58) and was an editor and translator for the publishing house Hachette.
She was chair of the Department of Classical Languages and Literature from 1969 to 1973 and retired as Professor Emerita in 1992.
[3] Burnett's research and writing focused on Greek revenge tragedies, which she argued should be seen in the context of their times and not through the lens of contemporary social and moral views, and on poets including Pindar, Archilochus, Alcaeus, and Sappho.
[4] She received many academic awards during her career including a Martin Lecture at Oberlin College in 1978,[5] George B. Walsh Lecture at the University of Chicago (1989–90),[6] Sather Professor of Classical Literature at Berkeley (1993–94),[7] and a Guggenheim fellowship in 1981.
[1] Anne Pippin Burnett died on April 22, 2017, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 91.