Professor Emerita Anne Klinck passed away on July 7, 2023.
Born in Chester, England on January 4, 1943, Anne Klinck joined the English department at UNB, specializing in Old English and History of the English Language, in 1990. After retiring from UNB, she was named professor emerita in 2009.
During her 18-year career, Anne was a productive scholar who published five books and many articles, including Sappho and ancient Greek lyrics. Her first book, a critical edition and genre study, The Old English Elegies (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992) has become a standard scholarly edition. An internationally respected authority on Medieval lyric poetry in the female voice, she also published a co-edited collection of essays entitled Cross-Cultural Approaches to Medieval Woman's Song (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), An Anthology of Ancient and Medieval Woman's Song (Palgrave, 2004), and a collection and translation entitled Woman’s Songs in Ancient Greece (McGill-Queen’s, 2008). Her co-edited fifth book was the final volume of the Middle English The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi (University of Ottawa Press, 2000).
While at UNB, Anne chaired and served on several departmental and faculty committees and co-directed the English majors and honours programs. She ran the English Language and Linguistics of English program for 18 years and was a student adviser in the linguistics program for nearly 15 years.
In addition to being a highly regarded researcher, Anne was a respected professor who passed her love of ancient literatures on to her students. She was a dedicated supervisor of graduate students interested in Old English, some of whom went on to teach and research here in the province. As a colleague, she was considered kind and good-humoured, a dear friend to many, with a sharp, sometimes cutting wit and an infectious laugh. Her colleagues will remember her as someone with great integrity and positive intentions.
