Henry Weinfield
Professor Emeritus
- Department
- Program of Liberal Studies
- College or School
- College of Arts and Letters
- Year of Emeritus Status 2019
Henry Weinfield joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1991 and retired in 2019 as Emeritus Professor of Liberal Studies. He received the Ph.D. from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is a poet, a scholar of English poetry, and a translator of poetry. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, most recently As the Crow Flies (2021) and An Alphabet (2022); three scholarly monographs, The Poet without a Name: Gray’s Elegy and the Problem of History (1991), The Music of Thought in the Poetry of George Oppen and William Bronk (2008), and The Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens: Freethinking and the Crisis of Modernity (2012); and a number of works of verse-translation, including the Collected Poems of Stéphane Mallarmé (1994), Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days (2006), done in collaboration with Catherine Schlegel, and The Labyrinth of Love: Selected Sonnets and Other Poems by Pierre de Ronsard (2021). He is also the editor of the Selected Poems of William Bronk (1995) and of From the Vast and Versal Lexicon: Selected Poems by Allen Mandelbaum (2018). His published essays encompass such poets as Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Hӧlderlin, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Mallarmé, Stevens, Oppen, Bronk, Reznikoff, Geoffrey Hill, and A.D. Hope. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Award and a two-time recipient of the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce C.S.C Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2009 and 2018). Now living in New York City, he is currently translating the poetry of Giacomo Leopardi.
Email: hweinfie@nd.edu