Education
He did his undergraduate studies at Haverford College and received his Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University.
He did his undergraduate studies at Haverford College and received his Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University.
He has taught at the University of Hamburg, Cornell University, and Queens College and Hunter College of the City University of New New York He has also been a visiting professor at Yale University. Burton Pike is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and a Fulbright fellowship.
He was awarded the Medal of Merit by the City of Klagenfurt, Austria, for his work on Robert Musil.
He was a finalist and received a special citation for the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for editing and co-translating Musil"s The Manitoba Without Qualities.