Maud Ellmann
Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies
Specialty
Irish literature, modern British fiction, gender studies, postcolonial studies
Degrees
B.A., King's College, Cambridge; Ph.D., St. Anne's College, Oxford University
Profile
Maud Ellmann is an endowed professor in both the English Department and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. She came to Notre Dame from Cambridge University, where she was a Reader in Modern Literature. Her recent book on Elizabeth Bowen 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. Her research interests focus on locating Irish experiences in theoretical and comparative contexts.
Publications
Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow across the Page. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003.
Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism. New York: Longman, 1994.
The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing and Imprisonment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
The Poetics of Impersonality: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.
Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Edited by Maud Ellmann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Recent Awards and Honors
Rose Mary Crawshay Award, British Academy, 2004
Contact Information
711 Flanner Hall
ellmann.1@nd.edu