Elizabeth Butler Cullingford is Jane and Roland Blumberg Professor in English Literature and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently serving as the Chair of the English Department.
Her publications include "Ireland's Others: Ethnicity and Gender in Irish Literature and Popular Culture," 2001; "Gender and History in Yeats's Love Poetry,"1993 and "Yeats, Ireland and Fascism," 1981. From 1985 to 1990 she served as director of the Yeats International Summer School in Sligo, Ireland. She is currently working on a feminist cultural studies book project analyzing literary depictions of the only child in the contexts provided by folklore, history, religion, demography and sociology.
Ph.D.
, University of Oxford, 1977
M.A.
, University of Oxford, 1972
B.A.
in English Literature, University of Oxford, 1969
Only children, Irish literature, politics, and culture; modern poetry; women's studies; drama and film; Shakespeare; the relation between high and popular culture
Chair,
External Review, Department of English and Film, University College Dublin, Ireland (2014)
Chair,
External Review, University of Notre Dame English Department (2008)
Member,
Program Committee, American Conference for Irish Studies (1998)
Member,
Programs and Procedures Committee, American Conference for Irish Studies (1998)
Panel Organizer,
MLA, American Conference for Irish Studies (1998 - 1999)
Elected Literature Representative,
Executive Committee, American Conference for Irish Studies (1997 - 1999)
Reader,
TSLL, Yeats Annual, CJIS, Theatre Journal, NEH; Cambridge UP, Cork UP, Michigan UP, UP of Kentucky, U of Texas P, Notre Dame P, Duke UP, Yale UP, Princeton UP, Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Humanities Center
Ireland's Others: Ethnicity and Gender in Irish Literature and Popular Culture (2001), Gender and History in Yeats's Love Poetry (1993), Yeats, Ireland and Fascism (1981)
Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature
- American Conference for Irish Studies (2002)
ODonnell Distinguished Visiting Professorship
- University of Notre Dame (2002)
M.L.Rosenthal Golden Apple Award
- Yeats Society of New York (1998)
Fellowship to Galway
- Irish American Cultural Institute (1995)
Choice Outstanding Academic Book
- ACRL (1993)
Visiting Fellowship
- University College Galway (1992)
Fellowship to Galway
- National Endowment for the Humanities (1990 - 1991)
Elected Visiting Associate
- Cambridge University, England (1984 - 1985)
Travel Grant
- Fulbright (1979 - 1980)