Cloud Professorship

In 2004 Sara Cloud made a bequest to provide a term professorship for the Department of English to honor 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 individual named is selected by the Dean on a departmental recommendation and manifests distinctive excellence in teaching and scholarship.

Past and present Cloud Visiting Professors include:

• 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 will be the first Sara and Jess Cloud Visiting Professor.