Yopie Prins

Yopie Prins is the Irene Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Her fields of research include classical reception, comparative literature, historical poetics, lyric theory, translation studies, Nineteenth-Century poetry, English Hellenism, and Victorian poetry.

Prins studied ancient Greek at Swarthmore College, and English literature at Newnham College of the University of Cambridge. She spent a year at the University of Amsterdam as a Fulbright Scholar, before gaining a PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University in 1991. She taught for four years at Oberlin College before joining the faculty of the University of Michigan. Having taught at the University of Michigan since 1994, she is currently the Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature there. She was the vice president of the American Association for Comparative Literature from 2013 to 2015, and president from 2015 to 2016.

Prins is married to the American composer Michael Daugherty. Provided by Wikipedia