Marie Edith Borroff (September 10, 1923 – July 5, 2019) was an American poet, translator, and the Sterling Professor of English emerita at Yale University.
[2] Borroff was born in New York City in 1923, the daughter of professional musicians Marie Bergerson and (Albert) Ramon Borroff,[3] and sister of composer Edith Borroff.
In 1959, she became the first woman to teach in the English Department at Yale.
In 1965, she was the first woman appointed to be an English professor.
[5] An Endowed Chair at Yale has been named for her (Marie Borroff Professor of English), presently held by Ardis Butterfield.