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 most recently Without Mythologies: New and Selected Poems and Translations (Dos Madres Press, 2008). His verse translation of Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days (done in collaboration with Professor Catherine Schlegel of the Notre Dame Classics Department) was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2006. His translation of and commentary on the Collected Poems of Stéphane Mallarmé was published by the University of California Press in 1995. He is also the author of a literary study, The Poet without a Name: Gray's Elegy and the Problem of History (Southern Illinois UP, 1991). A new study, The Music of Thought in the Poetry of George Oppen and William Bronk, will be published by the University of Iowa Press in March 2009. Weinfield’s poems, essays, and articles have appeared in numerous journals. His poem/translation on the Elijah story from the Book of Kings will be published in 2008 by the journal Shofar. He is currently completing a book on the blank verse tradition in English poetry from Milton to Stevens.
Curriculum Vitae
Contact Information
215 O'Shaughnessy
631-7483
hweinfie@nd.edu