Inta Ezergailis

Inta Miške Ezergailis (11 September 1932 in Riga, Latvia – 1 January 2005, in Ithaca, New York),[1] was a Latvian American professor emerita of German literature at Cornell University from 1969 to 1999, specializing in Thomas Mann and contemporary women writers.[2] In 1965, she began graduate study at Cornell University and after earning the doctorate in 1969, she was appointed to the Cornell faculty as an assistant professor of German literature.

In addition to books, she published numerous articles, in English and Latvian, in scholarly and intellectual periodicals.

During the last decade of her life, she turned from academic prose to poetry. Posthumously, her poems have been published by Ulysses House in four volumes: Inta's poems I, II, and III, Alzheimer's Poems, the Vanishing of a Mother. The last volume is devoted to her mother who died of dementia.

She was married to Andrew Ezergailis.

Books

References
  1. "Ezergailis, Inta Mišķe". ecommons.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2005-01-01.
  2. "Inta Ezergailis Obituary". Legacy.com. Ithaca Journal. 19 February 2005. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  3. "Nostalgia and beyond : eleven Latvian women writers / Inta Miške Ezergailis". trove.nla.gov.au.
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