Presenter

Rosanna Warren

Committee on Social Thought

Rosanna Warren is the Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and the College. Her second collection of poetry, Stained Glass (W.W. Norton, 1994), received a Lamont Poetry Selection award from the American Academy of Poets. Her most recent book of poems is Ghost in a Red Hat (W.W. Norton, 2011). She is also the author of a book of literary criticism, Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry (W.W. Norton, 2008). Among her numerous honors are a Pushcart Prize, the Witter Byner Poetry Prize, the Sara Teasdale Award in Poetry, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her research interests include translation, literary biography, literature and the visual arts, and relations between classical and modern literature.