1943년생. 연세대 영문과 졸업 (1967)
공군사관학교 교수부 영어교관 (1967-1971)
University of California at Davis (M.A., 1973)
Texas Tech University (Ph.D., 1980)
연세대학교 영문과 교수 (1981-2009)
Visiting Professor, University of Toronto (1987)
Visiting Professor, University of Washington (1994-1995)
Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, Troy University (2002-2003)
현 연세대학교 명예교수

번역작품
The Wind and the Waves: Four Modern Korean Poets (1989)
The Moonlit Pond: Korean Classical Poems in Chinese (1998)
The Brush and the Sword: Kasa, Korean Classical Poems in Prose (2009)
Blue Stallion: Poems of Yu Chi-whan (2011)
The Crane in the Clouds: Shijo, Korean Classical Poems in the Vernacular (2013)
The Vertex: Poems of Yi Yook-sa (2014)
Beowulf and Four Related Old English Poems (2010)
<리처드 2세> (2011)
<줄리어스 씨저> (2011)
<리처드 3세> (2012)
<오셀로> (2013)
<맥베스> (2015)
<아말피의 여공> (2012)
<포스터스 박사의 비극> (2015)

‘대한민국문학상’ (1990)
‘한국문학번역상’ (1999)