Henry Weinfield
Professor
Program of Liberal Studies
Concurrent Professor, English Department
B.A., City College of New York (1970); M.A., State University of New York at Binghamton (1973); Ph.D., The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (1985)
Research Profile
Weinfield is a poet, translator, and literary scholar. He is the author of a number of collections of poetry, including The Sorrows of Eros and Other Poems (University of Notre Dame Press, 1999); of a translation of and commentary on the Collected Poems of Stephane Mallarme (University of California Press, 1995); and of a literary study, The Poet Without a Name: Gray's Elegy and the Problem of History (Southern Illinois UP, 1991). His poems, essays, and articles have appeared in numerous journals. His verse translation of Hesiod's Works and Days and Theogony (with Catherine Schlegel of the Classics Department) was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2006. He is working on a book on the blank verse tradition in English poetry, and recently completed a book on the American poets George Oppen and William Bronk.
Curriculum Vitae
Contact Information
215 O'Shaughnessy
631-7483
hweinfie@nd.edu