Professor Maud Ellmann

Donald and Marilyn Keough Chair of Irish Studies Maud Ellmann has just completed a fellowship from the National Humanities Research Center in North Carolina. Educated at Cambridge, Oxford and the Université de Paris, Sorbonne and formerly a Reader in Modern Literature at King's College, University of Cambridge, Ellmann is a leading literary scholar whose publications include The Poetics of Impersonality: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound (1987), The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing and Imprisonment (1993) and Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism (1994). Her latest book, Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page (2003) was awarded the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for 2004 for the book of the year on a literary topic.

Maud has recently received research fellowships from the Mellon Foundation at Harvard University, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center in Research, the British Academy and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is also the editor of the Oxford World Classics edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1996) and among her many journal articles are major essays on James Joyce. Ellmann’s appointment complements the Keough-Naughton Institute's existing strength in English and invigorates both undergraduate and graduate study of literature.