Maud Ellmann

Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies
Department of English

Degrees

B.A., King's College, Cambridge; Ph.D., St. Anne's College, Oxford

Research Profile

Ellmann is an endowed professor in both the English Department and the Keough-Naughton Institute and came to Notre Dame from Cambridge University, where she was a Reader in Modern Literature. Her books include The Poetics of Impersonality: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound (1987), The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing and Imprisonment (1993) and Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page (2003). The last book has received the British Council Prize for book of the year in English Studies. Ellmann is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and has held a number of significant fellowships, including awards from Harvard (Mellon), Guggenheim, ACLS, Newberry, the Henry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, and the National Humanities Center.

Contact Information

711 Flanner Hall
ellmann.1@nd.edu