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CURRICULUM VITAE

YOPIE PRINS (Johanna Henrica Prins) 
Updated August 2008
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
3187 Angell Hall
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1003

EDUCATION:
 


Ph.D. (Comparative Literature), Princeton University, 1984-91.
Fulbright Scholar (Translation Studies), University of Amsterdam, 1983-84.
B.A./ M.A. (English Literature), Cambridge University, 1981-83.
B.A. (Ancient Greek) with Highest Honors, Swarthmore College, 1977-81.

 

 
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
 


Short-Term Visiting Fellow, Princeton University Council for the Humanities, 2004.
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2003-2004.
Henry Russel Award for Achievement in Scholarly Research, University of Michigan, 2002.
NEH Fellowship for University Teachers, 1999-2000.
LS&A Class of 1929 Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Michigan, 1998.
Research Fellow, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, U of Michigan, Fall 1996.
NEH Fellowship for College Teachers, 1993-1994.
Incentive Award, Journal of Classical and Modern Literature, 1992.
Mellon Fellow, Princeton University, 1984-1989.
Whiting Fellow, Princeton University, 1987-1988.
Seeger Fellow for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, Summer 1988.
Fulbright Scholar, The Netherlands, 1983-1984.
Marshall Scholar, Cambridge University, 1981-1983.
Phi Beta Kappa, Swarthmore College, 1981.
Hayes Prize for Translation, Swarthmore College, 1980.
National Scholar, Swarthmore College, 1977-1981.

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

 

Chair, Department of Comparative Literature,
University of Michigan, 2008-present.
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature,
University of Michigan, 1998-present.
Acting Director, Program in Comparative Literature
            University of Michigan, 2005-06.
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, 
            University of Michigan, 1994-1998.
Assistant Professor of English Literature,
Oberlin College, 1991-1994.
Instructor of English Literature,
Oberlin College, 1989-1991.

LANGUAGES:
 


Dutch (bilingual), German, French, Ancient Greek, Latin.

TEACHING FIELDS:
 


Comparative Literature, Victorian Studies, Historical Poetics and Lyric Theory, Classical Reception Studies, History and Theory of Translation, Music and Literature, Gender Studies. 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
 


American Comparative Literature Association
American Philological Association
Modern Language Association
MLA Division on the Victorian Period
North American Victorian Studies Association
Northeast Victorian Studies Association
Women’s Classical Caucus
Advisory Board, Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Advisory Board, Journal of Victorian Literature and Culture
Advisory Board, Translation Studies International Journal

INVITED LECTURES:
 


“Double Reading ‘A Musical Instrument’.”  Keynote for “Metre Matters: New Approaches to Prosody 1780-1914.”  Centre of Victorian Studies, University of Exeter (July 2008).  

“The Education of Electra: Greek Tragedy in the College Archive.”  Guest lecture, Smith College (April 2008).

“Transported by Meter: Robert Browning in America.”  Guest lecture, Oberlin College (May 2007).

“Robert Browning, Transported by Meter.”  Guest lecture, Duke University (April 2007).

“The Politics of Translating Prometheus Bound.” Seminar on English Literature and Classical Translation (1850-1955), Institute of English Studies, London (March 2007).

“Robert Browning, Transported by Meter.” 18th- and 19th-Century Cultures Workshop, University of Chicago (January 2007).

“Ladies’ Greek.”  Altman Distinguished Lecture Series on “Ancient Greeks / Victorian Sexualities.”  Miami University of Ohio (September 2006).

“Sappho Sung.”  Workshop on Translations and Transformations of Classical Texts, Department of Classics, Stanford University (May 2006).

“Robert Browning, Transported by Meter.” Keynote for “Print Culture and New Media,” Annual Conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Vancouver, (October 2005). 

“Double Reading ‘A Musical Instrument’.”  The English Institute, Harvard University (September 2005).

“Modern Maenads.”  Passmore Edwards Colloquium on “Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English,” Oxford University (September 2005).

“Virginia Woolf, ‘On Not Knowing Greek’.”  Guest lecture, Grand Valley State University (April 2005).

“Whither Victorian Poetry?”  Eighteenth/Nineteenth Century Colloquium, Yale University (October 2004).

“Sappho Recomposed: Musical Notes on Metrical Translation.”  Princeton University Council of the Humanities (April 2004).

“Ladies’ Greek.” Keynote for Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Women Writers Conference, University of Georgia (March 2004).

“Ladies’ Greek.”  Keynote for Elizabeth Cady Stanton Conference on Research in Women’s Studies, Villanova University (March 2004).

“Virginia Woolf and the Naked Cry of Cassandra.”  Guest lecture, Kansas State University (November 2003).

“Jane Harrison’s Maenads.”  Symposium on “The Myth of Dionysus, Then and Now,” University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (March 2003). 

“Robert Browning, Transported by Meter.”  Keynote for “Old-Lamps, New-Lit: The Future of Victorian Poetry,” University of Western Ontario (March 2003). 

“Ladies’ Greek.” Keynote for conference on “Women’s Poetry and the Fin de Siecle,” Birkbeck College (June 2002).

"The Greek Notebooks of Sara Coleridge and Virginia Woolf."  Guest lecture, Department of Classics, Haverford College (April 2001).

“Victorian Women and the Classics: A Dialogue.”  Discussion Group in the Nineteenth-Century and Beyond, UC Berkeley (November, 2000).

“Victorian Meters.”  Victorian Reading Group, Rutgers University (March 2000).

“Sappho in Translation.”  University Professors Translation Seminar, Boston University (March 1994). 

“‘So Harsh a Chain of Suffering’: Elizabeth Barrett's Prometheus Bound.” Guest lecture at Swarthmore College (November 1991).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

 


“Sweet, Sweet, Sweet: The Painful Pleasure of ‘A Musical Instrument,” Comparative Literature Faculty Colloquium on “Intellectual Pleasure, University of Michigan (January 2007).

Introduction, Colloquium “On Translating Homer,” Haverford College (November 2006). 
 
Panel on “The Legacies of Eva Palmer Sikelianos,” Symbiosis Conference, University of Thessaloniki, Greece (July 2005).

“Voice Inverse.”  3-day seminar on “Theory of the Lyric,” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Penn State University (March 2005).

“Modern Maenads.”  Workshop on “The Work of Eva Palmer Sikelianos: Past, Present, Future Directions,” co-sponsored by Contexts for Classics and Modern Greek Studies, University of Michigan (January 2005).

“Eva Palmer Sikelianos Directs the Bacchae,”  Colloquium on “Translating the Classics,” Princeton University (April 2004).  

“Notes on Metrical Translation.”  3-day seminar on “Critical Translation Studies,” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, University of Michigan (April 2004).

“Sappho (Re)Sounding.”  Conference on “Victorian Soundings: Voice, Bodies, Noise.”  The Dickens Universe, University of California, Santa Cruz (August 2003).

“Musical (De)Cadence.”  Conference on “Decadence, Ancient and Modern,” University of Bristol, England (July 2003).

“Virginia Woolf’s Agamemnon.”  Conference on “The Reception of Greek Tragedy Since Antiquity,” Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University (April 2003). 

“Women and the Greek Alphabet.”  Conference on “Dead Lovers: Erotic Bonds and the Study of Premodern Europe,” University of Michigan (March 2003).   

“Sappho Recomposed: A Victorian Song Cycle.”  Panel on Victorian Music, American Musicological Association, Columbus, Ohio (November 2002).   

“Transported by Meter.”  Conference on “The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange,” Rutgers University (September 2002).

“Nineteenth-Century Homers and the Hexameter Mania.” Seminar on “Classical Translations / Translating ‘Classics’.”  American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Puerto Ric (April 2002).

Panel on “Classical Pasts, Classical Presents: Interrogating the Classical Ideal.”  American Philological Association Convention, Philadelphia (January 2002). 

“Sappho Recomposed: ‘Prelude and Nine Fragments’ by Granville and Helen Bantock”  Conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Royal College of Music, London (July 2001).   

“Hexameter Mania.” Conference on "New Formalisms and the Lyric in History," University of Michigan (January 2001).   

“Women and the Greek Alphabet.”  Panel on Translation Studies, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, UCLA (November 2000).         

“Translating ‘Classics.’”  Colloquium on “Comparative Literature in Transnational Times,” Princeton University (March 2000).  

“Women and the Greek Alphabet.”  Seminar on “Rethinking the Discipline(s) of Classical Studies.”  American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Yale University (February 2000).

“Nineteenth-Century Homers and the Hexameter Mania.”  Panel on “What is Gained in Translation” sponsored by Poetry Division, MLA Convention, Chicago (December1999).

“Metrical Education in Nineteenth-century England.”  Conference on “Body/Bildung: Discipline and Desire in the Humanities.”  University of Michigan (October 1999).
 
“Translating Tragic Heroines: American Poetesses and Greek Tragedy.” Conference on “American Women and Classical Myth,” University of Maryland (September 1999).

“Victorian Sappho and the Scandals of Voice.”  Conference on “Sexual Controversies of the Fin de Siecle.” UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (May1999).

Panel on “Translation Studies: Current Trends and Future Developments.” Sponsored by Translation Discussion Group, MLA Convention, San Francisco (December 1998).

Panel on “Sappho and her Afterlife.”  American Philological Association Convention, Chicago (December 1997). 

“Victorian Versions of Sapphic Fragments.”  Seminar on “Translations and Translation Theory,” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Mexico (April 1997).  

“Greek Maenads, Victorian Spinsters.” Panel on “Feminist Aestheticism,” MLA Convention, Washington D.C. (December 1996). 

“The Victorian Legacy of Sappho.”  Feminism and Classics Conference, Princeton University (November 1996). 

“P.S. Sappho.”  CUNY Conference on "Victorian Poetry and its Modernities," New York (May 1996). 

“On The Flogging Block: Algernon Swinburne.”  Northeast Victorian Studies Association, Villanova University (April 1996).

“Victorian Poetry and the Body of Sappho.”  Panel on “Victorian Genders and Lyric Genres,” MLA Convention, Chicago  (December 1995).

“Sapphic Authorship in Victorian England.”  Conference on "Rethinking Women's Poetry: 1730-1930." Birkbeck College, University of London (July 1995).

“Corpse to Corpus: Victorian Aesthetics and the Body of Sappho.”  Northeast Victorian Studies Association, M.I.T. (April 1995).

“Sappho Doubled: Michael Field.” Panel on “Sapphic Authorship in Nineteenth-Century England,” MLA Convention, San Diego (December1994).

“Suffering Meter: Swinburne and the Sapphic Scene of Instruction.”  Meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Duke University (November 1994).

“Medea in Modern Performance: Martha Graham’s ‘Cave of the Heart’.”  The Martha Graham Centenary Festival, University of Michigan (October 1994).

“Michael Field.”  Conference on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers, Michigan State University (April 1994). 

“Sappho's Broken Tongue.”  Panel on “Sappho's Afterlife in Translation,” MLA Convention, Toronto (December 1993).

“Elizabeth Barrett's Epilogue to Aeschylus.”  Conference on “Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Victorian Culture.” Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University (November 1993). 

“The Translator's Bondage.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Indiana University (March 1993).

“Tongue is Broken: Sappho Fragment 31.”  Invited Lecture in Classics Department, Duke University (February 1993).

“Feminist Pedagogy and ‘The Sapphic Tradition.’”  Feminism and Classics Conference, University of Cincinnati (November 1992).

“Living on in Translation: Browning’s Alcestis.”  American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Columbia University (April 1992).

“Interdisciplinary approaches to teaching Euripides’ Bacchae.” Interdisciplinary Conference,  Committee for the Advancement of Early Studies, Ball State University (October 1991).

“Translation in the Brownings' Courtship Correspondence.”  American Comparative Literature Assocation Conference, Penn State University (April1990).

“Browning's Dark Euripides.”  Browning Centennial Conference, Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University (November 1989).

“Browning's Agamemnon: The Translator's Exemplary Failure.”  Panel on “Translating Greek Tragedy,” Modern Language Association Convention, New Orleans (December 1988).

“Translating Contemporary Dutch Literature.” Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies, University of Michigan (June 1986).