Gordon Braden

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
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Petrarch’s English Laurels, 1475-1700, with Jackson Campbell Boswell (Ashgate, forthcoming)
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The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English: 1550-1660, co-edited with Robert Cummings and Stuart Gillespie (Oxford, 2010)
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Sixteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell, 2005)
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Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance (Yale, 1999)
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The Idea of the Renaissance, with William Kerrigan (Johns Hopkins, 1989)
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Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition: Anger’s Privilege (Yale, 1985)
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The Classics and English Renaissance Poetry: Three Case Studies (Yale, 1978)
Recent Articles
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“Classical Translation” in The Oxford Companion to English Prose, 1500-1640, ed. Andrew Hadfield (forthcoming)
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“Shakespeare” in A Companon to Plutarch, ed. Mark Beck (Wiley Blackwell, forthcoming)
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“Edward Fairfax and the Translation of Vernacular Epic” in Tudor Translation, ed. Fred Schurink (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming)
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“Ovid’s Witchcraft” in Yale Classical Studies (forthcoming)
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“Classical Love Elegy in the Renaissance (and After)” in The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, ed. Karen Weisman (Oxford, 2010)
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“Ovid and Shakespeare” in A Companion to Ovid, ed. Peter Knox (Wiley Blackwell, 2009)
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“Spartacus and the Second Part of the Soul” in The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick, ed. Jerold J. Abrams (Kentucky 2007)
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“Wyatt and Petrarch: Italian Fashion at the Court of Henry VIII,” Annali d’Italianistica (2004)
Awards and Prizes
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Beta of Virginia Phi Beta Kappa Book Award (2001)
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Roland H. Bainton Book Prize, with William Kerrigan (Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 1990)
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James Holly Hanford Award, with William Kerrigan (Milton Society of America, 1986)
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NEH Fellow ship for Independent Research (1980)
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Theron Rockwell Field Prize Yale, 1976)

