Previous Speakers

2024 Speakers

Tim Armstrong, Royal Holloway, University of London

Tim Armstrong is Professor at Royal Holloway, where he researches in the areas of modernism, American literature, literature and technology, the body (including such areas as sexology, bodily reform, cinema, and sound). Some of his books include Modernism, Technology and the Body, Haunted Hardy, and Modernism: A Cultural History. His most recent book slavery as cultural metaphor, The Logic of Slavery, won the 2013 Holman Prize of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature for the best book of literary scholarship and was a Choice outstanding academic title the same year.

Anthony Cuda, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Executive Director of the Summer School since 2018, Anthony Cuda is Professor and Associate Head of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is author of The Passions of Modernism: Eliot, Yeats, Woolf, and Mann (2010) and co-editor of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition, Vol. 2: The Perfect Critic, 1919-1926 (2014), and he is managing editor of the redesigned digital edition of The Complete Prose. He is Secretary of the International T. S. Eliot Society.

Julia Daniel, Baylor University

Julia Daniel is Associate Professor at Baylor, where she teaches courses in modern American poetry and drama and the environmental humanities. She is the author of Building Natures: Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning and the co-editor of Modernism in the Green: Public Greens in Modern Literature and Culture. Some of her pieces on Eliot have appeared or are forthcoming in The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Eliot Now, Ecomodernism, The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land, and Modern Drama. She has also served as the co-editor of The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual and is herself an alumna of the International T. S. Eliot Summer School.

Jeremy Diaper, University of Exeter

Jeremy Diaper is Assistant Director of Governance at the University of Exeter and author of T. S. Eliot and Organicism (2018).

Frances Dickey, University of Missouri

Frances Dickey is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and editor of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, Vol. 3: Literature, Politics, Belief, 1927–1929 (2015), The Edinburgh Companion to T. S. Eliot and the Arts (2016), and the T. S. Eliot Studies Annual (2020-2023). She is author of The Modern Portrait Poem from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ezra Pound (2012) and articles on Eliot and others appearing in Modernism/modernity, Twentieth-Century Literature, Contemporary Literature, etc. She served as President of the International T. S. Eliot Society and regularly lectures at the T. S. Eliot International Summer School.

Maud Ellmann, Emerita, University of Chicago

Maud Ellmann is Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. She has written widely on modernism and literary theory in books includingThe Poetics of Impersonality: T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound; The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Imprisonment; Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page; and The Nets of Modernism: James, Woolf, Joyce, and Freud. She has also edited a Longman Reader in Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism and, most recently, coedited The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism with Siân White and Vicki Mahaffey.

Nancy Fulford, T. S. Eliot Estate

Nancy Fulford is the Archivist for the T. S. Eliot Estate and has been working with the Eliot archives and library since 2014. Nancy is Chair of the South East and London Committee of the Archives & Records Association.

John Haffenden, Emeritus, University of Sheffield

John Haffenden FRSL FBA is emeritus professor of English literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of award-winning biographies and editions of John Berryman and William Empson, and of critical studies of W. H. Auden and others. Senior research fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study at the University of London, Haffenden is principal investigator of the T. S. Eliot Editorial Research Project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, 2009–14, and he is general editor of the Letters of T. S. Eliot as well as editor of the The Letters of T. S. Eliot to Emily Hale (2022).

John Morgenstern, Emory University

John Morgenstern is a scholar of twentieth-century literature and the arts who has taught in England, Germany, and the United States. He now serves as an associate librarian at Emory University. John is the coeditor of The Edinburgh Companion to T. S. Eliot and the Arts (2016), coeditor of Modernism in Wonderland: Legacies of Lewis Carroll (2024), and the founding editor of The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual. He is currently revising a book manuscript tentatively titled “T. S. Eliot: Controversialist,” which reconstructs the French periodical debates that he encountered as a student in Paris and later reformulated in his early, influential criticism.

Ronald Schuchard, Emeritus, Emory University

Ronald Schuchard, Goodrich C. White Professor of English and Irish Studies, Emeritus, Emory University, is the author and editor of numerous studies and editions of modern authors, particularly W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. A former director of the Yeats International Summer School, he has received the M. L. Rosenthal Award for distinguished contributions to Yeats studies. His The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts (OUP 2008), won the Robert Rhodes Prize for an outstanding book on Irish literature. He is co-editor with John Kelly of The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats (OUP), volumes III (1994), IV (2005; winner of the MLA Morton N. Cohen Award for a distinguished edition of letters), and V (2018). His edition of Eliot’s Clark and Turnbull Lectures, published as The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry (Faber 1993), was followed by Eliot’s Dark Angel (OUP 1999), which won the Robert Penn Warren / Cleanth Brooks Award for outstanding literary criticism. He is general editor of the eight-volume online and print editions of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition (JHUP and Faber, 2014-21; volume 2 won the MSA prize for an edition; volumes 6 and 7 won jointly the MLA Morten N. Cohen Award). A former Guggenheim Fellow, he is co-founder and former director of the T. S. Eliot International Summer School. Presently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Megan Quigley, Villanova University

Megan Quigley is the author of Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: Philosophy, Form, and Language (2015) and the editor of two clusters of essays on #MeToo, T. S. Eliot, and Modernism in Modernism/modernity Print+ (2019, 2020). She has published essays in the James Joyce Quarterly, Modernism/modernity, Philosophy and Literature, Poetics Today, LARB, the T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, nonsite and The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism. With David E. Chinitz, she is co-editing the forthcoming volume Eliot Now (Bloomsbury 2024). Her current book project, The Love Song of Modernism, focuses on modernism and fanfiction. She is an Associate Professor of English at Villanova University, and affiliated faculty in Irish Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies.

John Whittier-Ferguson, University of Michigan

John Whittier-Ferguson is Professor of English at the University of Michigan, where he’s been since 1990. His most recent book, Mortality and Form in Late Modernist Literature, was published by Cambridge in the fall of 2015. He is the author of Framing Pieces: Designs of the Gloss in Joyce, Woolf, and Pound (1996), and co-editor, with A. Walton Litz and Richard Ellmann, of James Joyce: Poems and Shorter Writings (1991). He has published in Modernism / modernity, Modern Fiction Studies, The James Joyce Quarterly, The Journal of Modern Literature, and elsewhere. He is the current President of the International T. S. Eliot Society.

Speakers from 2009-2023

2023

Opening lecture: Ruth Padel, Kings College London

Lectures:

  • Anthony Cuda, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
  • Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley
  • David Chinitz, Loyola University Chicago
  • Ria Banerjee, CUNY Guttman and the Graduate Center
  • Peter Boxall, University of Sussex
  • Jayme Stayer, Loyola University
  • John Morgenstern, Clemson University
  • Rachel Murray, Northumbria University
  • Anita Patterson, Boston University
  • Michelle Taylor, University of Oxford
  • David Trotter, University of Cambridge
  • Lyndall Gordon, University of Oxford
2022

Opening lecture: Gabriel Josipovici, Sussex University – Award-winning novelist, critic and playwright

Poetry Reading: Dr Hannah Sullivan, University of Oxford – T.S. Eliot Prize winning poet Hannah Sullivan will be joining us to give a private reading and book signing.

Lecturers: 

  • Frances Dickey, University of Missouri: Early Poems and Criticism
  • Leonard Diepeveen, Dalhousie University: The Waste Landand its Contexts
  • Sarah Kennedy, Downing College, University of Cambridge: Eliot and the   Deed of Reading; Allusion, Anxiety, Metaphor, and Myth
  • Patrick Query, United States Military Academy in West Point: Later Poems and Criticism
  • Megan Quigley, Villanova University: Eliot’s Women
  • Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia: Global Eliot
  • Hannah Sullivan, New College, University of Oxford: One-day creative writing workshop
  • Anthony Cuda, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
  • Beci Carver, University of Exeter
  • Sasha Dugdale
  • Mark Ford, University College London
  • Lyndall Gordon, St Hilda’s College
  • Matthew Hollis
  • Seamus Perry, Balliol College, University of Oxford
2019

Opening lecture: Sean O’Brien, Newcastle University – Award-winning British poet, critic and playwright Sean O’Brien

Poetry Reading: Dr Hannah Sullivan, University of Oxford – T.S. Eliot Prize winning poet Hannah Sullivan

Lecturers:

  • Jewel Spears Brooker, Professor Emerita of Literature, Eckerd College: Mixing Memory and Desire: The Thrush as Symbol in Eliot’s Poetry.
  • David Chinitz, Professor of English and Department Chair, Loyola University Chicago: “In Possession of Facts”
  • Robert Crawford, Professor of Modern Scottish Literature and Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews: “The Passage Which We Did Not Take”
  • Anthony Cuda, Director of the Summer School; Associate Professor and Associate Head, University of North Carolina, Greensboro: Belatedly, T.S. Eliot
  • Julia Daniel, Assistant Professor of English, Baylor University: Eliot’s Dwellings
  • Nancy Fulford, Archivist for the T. S. Eliot Estate: The T.S. Eliot Collection: Work in Progress
  • Robert Von Hallberg, Helen A. Regenstein Professor of English Language and Literature, Germanic Studies, Claremont McKenna College: “The Authority of Moments and Locations” Little Gidding
  • Elizabeth Micakovic, Deputy Director of the Summer School: T.S. Eliot and the Fall and Rise of the Public Intellectual in the Inter-War Period
  • Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania: Tiresias’ Divan: Lacan reads The Waste Land.
  • Jayme Stayer, S. J., Associate Professor of English, Loyola University Chicago: Prufrock, Abandoned
  • Joanna Rzepa, Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex: Literary and Theological Modernisms: T.S. Eliot and the Modernist Heresy
2018

Opening address: Colm Tóibίn, Irish novelist, poet, playwright, and critic

Poetry reading: Dame Carol Ann Duffy, HonFBA, Poet  Laureate of the UK and Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University

Lecturers and Seminar Leaders:

  • John Xiros Cooper, Professor of English Emeritus at the University of British Columbia
  • Anthony Cuda, Associate Professor and Associate Head of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro
  • Frances Dickey, Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri and President of the International T. S. Eliot Society
  • Mark Ford, Professor of English at University College London
  • Lyndall Gordon, Biographer of Eliot and Senior Research Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford
  • John Haffenden, FBA, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, Research Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Sheffield
  • Dame Hermione Lee, FBA, Biographer, President Emerita of Wolfson College, Oxford, Founder and Honorary Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
  • William Marx, Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Doctoral School in Letters, University of Paris Nanterre
  • Seamus Perry, Professor of English Literature and Chair of the English Faculty, Oxford University
  • Jahan Ramazani, University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia
  • Ronald Schuchard, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, Goodrich C. White Professor of English Emeritus at Emory University
  • Hannah Sullivan, Tutorial fellow and university lecturer in English at New College, Oxford
2017

Opened by: Alan Jenkins
Poetry reading by: Simon Armitage

Tutors, lecturers, readers and panelists

  • Simon Armitage, poet, playwright, novelist, Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield
  • Jewel Spears Brooker, Professor Emerita of Literature at Eckerd College in Florida
  • Robert Crawford, Professor of Modern Scottish Literature and Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews
  • Aviva Dautch, a former student in the Summer School and Poet in Residence at the Jewish Museum, London
  • Oline Eaton, former student in the Summer School and doctoral researcher at the Centre for Life-Writing Research at King’s College London
  • Sarah Kennedy, Fellow in English, Downing College, Cambridge
  • Kinereth Meyer, Associate Professor, Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University
  • Marjorie Perloff, Professor Emerita of English at Stanford University and Florence R. Scott Professor of English Emerita at the University of Southern California
  • Christopher Ricks, William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University
  • Stephen Romer, poet, translator, and literary critic, lecturer in the English Department at the University of Tours, France
  • Joanna Rzepa, Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College Dublin
  • Ronald Schuchard, Founder-Director of the Summer School and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, is Goodrich C. White Professor of English Emeritus at Emory University
  • Robert Von Hallberg, Helen A. Regenstein Professor of English Language and Literature, Germanic Studies, Claremont McKenna College
2016

Opened by: Stefan Collini
Poetry reading by: Sarah Howe

Tutors, lecturers, readers and panelists 

  • Jewel Spears Brooker is Professor Emerita of Literature at Eckerd College in Florida
  • Stefan Collini is Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature at Cambridge University
  • Aviva Dautch, a former student in the Summer School, teaches English literature and creative writing at the British Library and is Poet in Residence at the Jewish Museum, London
  • Oline Eaton, former student in the Summer School and doctoral researcher at the Centre for Life-Writing Research at King’s College London
  • Nancy Fulford, Project Archivist for the T S Eliot Collection
  • Lyndall Gordon, Senior Research Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford
  • Jason Harding, Reader in English Studies at Durham University
  • Sarah Howe, British poet, editor and Leverhulme Fellow at University College London
  • William Marx, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
  • Steven Matthews, Professor of Modernism at Reading University
  • Gail McDonald, Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London and Director of the T. S. Eliot international Summer School
  • Seamus Perry, Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford
  • Gilles Philippe, Professor of French Linguistics at the University of Lausanne
  • Megan Quigley, Assistant Professor of English at Villanova University
  • Jayme Stayer, Associate Professor of Literature at John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio
2015

Opened by: Craig Raine
Poetry reading by: Sinéad Morrissey

Tutors, lecturers, readers and panelists

  • Massimo Bacigalupo is Professor of American Literature at the University of Genoa, Italy  
  • Michael Coyle, Professor of English at Colgate University
  • Robert Crawford, Professor of Modern Scottish Literature and Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews
  • Nancy K. Gish, Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine
  • Lyndall Gordon, Senior Research Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford
  • Jason Harding, Reader in English Studies at Durham University
  • Nancy D. Hargrove, William L. Giles Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at Mississippi State University
  • Michael Levenson, William B. Christian Professor of English at the University of Virginia
  • Gail McDonald, Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London and Director of the T. S. Eliot international Summer School
  • Sinéad Morrissey, poet and lecturer in creative writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University in Belfast
  • Sir Christopher Ricks, a former Oxford Professor of Poetry, is William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities
  • John Paul Riquelme, Professor of English at Boston University
  • Joanna Rzepa, a former student in the Eliot Summer School, is an Early Career Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick
  • Ronald Schuchard, Founder-Director of the Summer School and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, is Goodrich C. White Professor of English Emeritus at Emory University
  • Vincent Sherry, Howard Nemerov Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis
  • Wim Van Mierlo, Lecturer in Publishing at Loughborough University
2014

Opened by: Mark Ford
Poetry readings by: Linda Gregerson, Peter Cochran and Jenny Sargent

Tutors, lecturers, readers and panelists

  • Jewel Spears Brooker, Professor Emerita, Eckerd College
  • David Chinitz, Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago
  • Anthony Cuda, Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina
  • Frances Dickey, Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri
  • Mark Ford, Professor of English at University College London
  • Lyndall Gordon, Senior Research Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford
  • Linda Gregerson, Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan
  • Gail McDonald, is Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London
  • Gabrielle McIntire, is Associate Professor at Queen’s University, Canada
  • Jahan Ramazani, is Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia
  • Tony Sharpe, author of T.S. Eliot: A Literary Life
  • Vincent Sherry, Howard Nemerov Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis
  • Hannah Sullivan, tutorial fellow and university lecturer in English at New College, Oxford
  • Wim Van Mierlo, Acting Director of the Institute of English Studies, University of London
2013

Opened by: Ronald Schuchard
Poetry readings by: Christopher Reid, Daljit Nagra and Robert Crawford

Tutors, lecturers, readers and panelists

  • Nuzhat Bukhari, Faculty of English, Cambridge
  • Robert Crawford, Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at St. Andrews University
  • Lyndall Gordon, literary biographer and Senior Research Fellow of St. Hilda’s College, Oxford
  • Nancy D. Hargrove, William L. Giles Distinguished Professor Emerita at Mississippi State University
  • Guy Hargrove, tenor and Professor of Music Emeritus at Mississippi State University
  • Hugh Haughton, Professor of English at York University
  • Gail McDonald, Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London
  • William Marx, Professor of Comparative Literature at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
  • Daljit Nagra, poet and English teacher
  • Megan Quigley, Assistant Professor of English at Villanova University
  • Christopher Reid, poet, essayist, and former poetry editor of Faber and Faber
  • Sir Christopher Ricks, former Oxford Professor of Poetry, is William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities
  • Jayme Stayer, John Carroll University
  • Ronald Schuchard, Founder-Director of the Summer School and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, is Goodrich C. White Professor of English Emeritus at Emory University
  • Marianne Thormählen, Professor of English and Dean of Research in the Humanities and Theology at Lund University, Sweden
  • Wim Van Mierlo, Executive Director of the Summer School and Lecturer in Textual Scholarship and English Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of London
2012

Opened by: Paul Muldoon
Poetry readings by: Paul Muldoon, Bernard O’Donoghue and Sean O’Brien

Tutors, lecturers, readers and panelists

  • Anthony Cuda, Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro
  • Frances Dickey, Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri
  • Manju Jain, Professor of English, Emerita, University of Delhi
  • Jim McCue, co-editor with Christopher Ricks of the Complete Poems of T. S. Eliot
  • John Morgenstern, Oxford University
  • Paul Muldoon, poet, critic, playwright, Howard G. B. Clark ‘21 Professor and Chair of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University
  • Sean O’Brien, poet, critic, novelist, playwright, Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University
  • Stephen Regan, Professor of English at Durham University and Visiting Scholar at Harvard
  • Jahan Ramazani, Edgar F. Shannon Professor and Chair of English, University of Virginia
  • John Paul Riquelme, Professor of English at Boston University
  • Ronald Schuchard, Director of the Summer School and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies
  • Hannah Sullivan, Tutor and Lecturer in English at New College, Oxford
  • Wim Van Mierlo, Executive Director of the Summer School and Lecturer in Textual Scholarship and English Literature at the Institute of English Studies 
2011

Opened by: Simon Armitage
Poetry readings by: Simon Armitage and Robert Crawford

Tutors, lecturers, readers and panelists

  • Daniel Albright, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University
  • Simon Armitage, CBE, award-winning poet, playwright, novelist, critic, and translator, is the recently appointed Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield
  • Jewel Spears Brooker, Professor of English at Eckerd College
  • Michael Coyle, Professor of English at Colgate University
  • Robert Crawford, Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at St. Andrews University
  • Lyndall Gordon, literary biographer and Senior Research Fellow of St. Hilda’s College, Oxford
  • Jason Harding, Reader at the University of Durham
  • John Kelly, Professor and Emeritus Research Fellow in English at St. John’s College, Oxford
  • William Marx, Professor of Comparative Literature at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
  • Timothy Materer, Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia
  • Craig Raine, former Poetry Editor of Faber and Faber and Fellow of New College, Oxford
  • Sir Christopher Ricks, FBA, Professor of the Humanities and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University
  • Ronald Schuchard, Director of the Summer School and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies
  • Anne Stillman, Clare College, Cambridge, where she is Tutor, Lecturer, and Director of Studies in English

Wim Van Mierlo, Executive Director of the Summer School, teaches Textual Scholarship and English Studies at the University of London 

2010

Opened by: Sir Tom Stoppard
Poetry readings by: Dame Eileen Atkins, Ian McDiarmid and Mark Strong

Tutors, lecturers, readers and panelists

  • Massimo Bacigalupo, Professor of American Literature at the University of Genoa, Italy
  • Jewel Spears Brooker, Professor of English at Eckerd College
  • Ron Bush, the Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature at St. John’s College, Oxford
  • David Chinitz is Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago
  • Mark Ford, poet, editor, literary critic and Professor of English at University College London
  • John Haffenden, Research Professor at the University of Sheffield, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies and Principal Investigator of the T. S. Eliot Research Project
  • Nancy Duvall Hargrove, William L.Giles Distinguished Professor Emerita at Mississippi State University
  • Guy Hargrove, Mississippi State University
  • Josephine Hart, Irish novelist and theatre producer
  • Iman Javadi, Research fellow of the Institute of English Studies
  • Hermione Lee, former Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature at Oxford, now President of WolfsonCollege, Oxford
  • Matthew McAdam, Humanities Editor of The Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Jim McCue, Research Fellow in the Institute of English Studies
  • Gail McDonald, Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton
  • Marjorie Perloff, Professor Emerita at Stanford University and Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Southern California
  • Robin Robertson, Scots poet and publisher
  • Stephen Romer, poet, translator, and literary critic, lecturer in the English Department at the University of Tours, France
  • Ronald Schuchard, Director of the Summer School and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, is Goodrich C. White Professor of English at Emory University
  • Wim Van Mierlo, Executive Director of the Summer School, teaches Textual Scholarship and English Studies at the University of London
2009

Opening lecture: Seamus Heaney 
Poetry readings by: Seamus Heaney, Jeremy Irons and Dominic West 

Tutors, lecturers, readers and panelists

  • Jewel Spears Brooker, Professor of English at Eckerd College
  • Anthony Cuda, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
  • Robert Crawford, Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at St. Andrews University
  • Denis Donoghue, Henry James Professor in English and American Letters at New York University
  • Mark Ford, poet, editor and literary critic, and Professor of English at University College London
  • Jennifer Formichelli, Boston University
  • Lyndall Gordon, literary biographer and Senior Research Fellow of St. Hilda’s College, Oxford
  • Jason Harding, reader at the University of Durham
  • Barbara Hardy, FRSL, FBA, Professor Emerita of Birkbeck College, University of London, Honorary Professor of the University of Wales, Swansea and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London 
  • Josephine Hart, Irish novelist and theatre producer
  • Seamus Heaney, FRSL, FBA, is former Oxford Professor of Poetry and Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University
  • Gail McDonald, Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton
  • A. David Moody, Professor of English at the University of York
  • Paul Muldoon, FRSL, director of the creative writing programme at Princeton University
  • Sir Christopher Ricks, FBA, Professor of the Humanities at Boston University 
  • Ronald Schuchard, Director of the Summer School, is Goodrich C. White Professor of English at Emory University
  • Wim Van Mierlo, Executive Director of the Summer School, teaches Textual Scholarship and English Studies at the University of London

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