Cloud Professor

The Cloud Professor is an occasional visiting appointment that honors the achievements and perpetuate the memory of Dr. Jess Cloud, accomplished poet, author, scholar, and former development officer and teacher in the College's Honor Program. The program is funded by a 2004 bequest from Sara Cloud. The Cloud Professor is selected by the Dean of Arts and Sciences on a departmental recommendation, and manifests distinctive excellence in teaching and scholarship.

Cloud Professor:

• The next visiting Cloud Professor will be appointed for the 2012-13 academic year.
• 2008. Lucy McDiarmid is Professor of English at Villanova University. Her books include The Irish Art of Controversy (Cornell U. Press, 2005), Saving Civilization: Yeats, Eliot, & Auden Between the Wars (Cambridge, 1984), Auden's Apologies for Poetry (Princeton, 1990), Lady Gregory: Selected Writings (ed. with Maureen Waters, Penguin, 1995), and High and Low Moderns: Literature & Culture 1889 - 1939 (ed. with Maria DiBattista, Oxford, 1996). She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEH, and ACLS and previously served as Visiting Professor of English at Princeton and as the Carole and Gordon Segal Visiting Professor of Irish Literature at Northwestern University. She is the first Sara and Jess Cloud Visiting Professor.