YOPIE PRINS (Johanna Henrica Prins)

Yopie Prins is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan.

She received a B.A. in Ancient Greek at Swarthmore College, and a B.A./M.A. in English Literature as a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University. In 1991 she completed her Ph.d. in Comparative Literature at Princeton University.

She is the author of Victorian Sappho (Princeton 1999) and co-editor of Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry (Cornell 1997). She has also published various translations of Dutch contemporary literature.

Her research areas include Victorian poetry, Classical Greek literature and its reception, gender criticism, and translation studies. She plays the oboe and is interested in the relation between music and lyric.

At the University of Michigan she is co-founder of "Contexts for Classics," an interdepartmental consortium dedicated to exploring the relationship between Classical antiquity and the modern world.