Gordon Braden

(1975)
Linden Kent Memorial Professor
Renaissance Literature, Classical Backgrounds

Degrees

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

Books

  • The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, vol. 2: 1550-1660, co-edited with Robert Cummings and Stuart Gillespie (Oxford, forthcoming)
  • Petrarch’s English Laurels, 1475-1700, with Jackson Campbell Boswell (Ashgate, forthcoming)
  • 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 (Yale, 1985)
  • The Classics and English Renaissance Poetry: Three Case Studies (Yale, 1978)

Recent Articles

  • “Classical Love Elegy in the Renaissance (and After),” in The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, ed. Karen Weisman (Oxford, forthcoming)
  • “Ovid’s Witchcraft,” Yale Classical Studies (forthcoming)
  • “Ovid and Shakespeare,” in Blackwell Companion to Ovid, ed. Peter E. 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)
  • “Plutarch, Shakespeare, and the Alpha Males,” in Shakespeare and the Classics, ed. A. B. Taylor and Charles Martindale (Cambridge, 2004)
  • “Pride, Humility, and the Petrarchan Happy Ending,” Spenser Studies (2003)

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)