Marjorie Perloff

Marjorie Perloff (born September 28, 1931) is a poetry scholar and critic in the United States.

Perloff was born Gabriele Mintz into a secularized Jewish family in Vienna. Faced with Nazi terror, her family emigrated in 1938 when she was six-and-a-half, going first to Zürich and then to the United States, settling in Riverdale, New York. After attending Oberlin College from 1949 to 1952, she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Barnard College in 1953; that year, she married Joseph K. Perloff, a cardiologist and Streisand/American Heart Association Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics Emeritus at UCLA. She completed her graduate work at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., earning an M.A. in 1956 and a Ph.D (with a dissertation on W.B. Yeats) in 1965.

After completing her degrees at Catholic University, Perloff taught at the school from 1966–71. She then moved on to become Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park (1971–76) and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California (1976–86) and then at Stanford University (1986–90). She then became Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities at Stanford (1990—2000, Emerita from 2001). She is currently scholar-in-residence and Florence Scott Professor of English Emerita at the University of Southern California.

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