Gordon Braden

(1975)
Linden Kent Memorial Professor

Renaissance Literature, Classical Backgrounds
Director of Graduate Admissions

Degrees

Ph.D. Yale, 1975
B.A. Rice, 1969

Books

  • Petrarch’s English Laurels, 1475-1700, with Jackson Campbell Boswell (Ashgate, forthcoming)
  • The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English: 1550-1660, co-edited with Robert Cummings and Stuart Gillespie (Oxford, 2010)
  • Sixteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell, 2005)
  • Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance (Yale, 1999)
  • The Idea of the Renaissance, with William Kerrigan (Johns Hopkins, 1989)
  • Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition: Anger’s Privilege (Yale, 1985)
  • The Classics and English Renaissance Poetry: Three Case Studies (Yale, 1978)

Recent Articles

  • “Classical Translation” in The Oxford Companion to English Prose, 1500-1640, ed. Andrew Hadfield (forthcoming)
  • “Shakespeare” in A Companon to Plutarch, ed. Mark Beck (Wiley Blackwell, forthcoming)
  • “Edward Fairfax and the Translation of Vernacular Epic” in Tudor Translation, ed. Fred Schurink (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming)
  • “Ovid’s Witchcraft” in Yale Classical Studies (forthcoming)
  • “Classical Love Elegy in the Renaissance (and After)” in The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, ed. Karen Weisman (Oxford, 2010)
  • “Ovid and Shakespeare” in A Companion to Ovid, ed. Peter Knox (Wiley Blackwell, 2009)
  • Spartacus and the Second Part of the Soul” in The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick, ed. Jerold J. Abrams (Kentucky 2007)
  • “Wyatt and Petrarch: Italian Fashion at the Court of Henry VIII,” Annali d’Italianistica (2004)

Awards and Prizes

  • Beta of Virginia Phi Beta Kappa Book Award (2001)
  • Roland H. Bainton Book Prize, with William Kerrigan (Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 1990)
  • James Holly Hanford Award, with William Kerrigan (Milton Society of America, 1986)
  • NEH Fellow ship for Independent Research (1980)
  • Theron Rockwell Field Prize Yale, 1976)