Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies, Maud Ellmann

A concern with locating Irish experiences in theoretical and comparative contexts has been central to the intellectual culture of the Irish Studies program at Notre Dame since its inception in 1993. The appointment of Maud Ellmann as Endowed Professor of English reaffirms the centrality of that concern to the wider Irish Studies project. 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) has recently been 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, Triangle Park, 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 Joyce.

Ellmann joins an Irish Studies faculty in English that includes Mary Burgess, Seamus Deane, Christopher Fox, Luke Gibbons and Susan Harris. Her appointment complements the Keough-Naughton Institute's existing strength in English and invigorates both undergraduate and graduate study of literature.