W. Ronald Schuchard

Professor Ronald Schuchard is the Goodrich C. White Professor of English, Emeritus, at Emory University. He is the author of books on W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot, including Eliot's Dark Angel (1999), which received the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award, and The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts (2008), which received the Robert Rhodes Prize. Additionally, he is the editor of Eliot's unpublished Clark and Turnbull Lectures, The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry (1993). With John Kelly, he is the co-editor of three volumes of Yeats's letters, one of which received the Modern Language Association's Morton N. Cohen Award. Schuchard is general editor of the major eight-volume online and print editions of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot:The Critical Edition, volume 2 of which won the Modernist Studies Association Edition Prize, volumes 5 and 6 of which won jointly the MLA Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he is the founder-director of the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature and the T. S. Eliot International Summer School at the University of London. He is also an advisor for the archives of English and Irish manuscripts at the Robert W. Woodruff Library and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London.