Sara & Jess Cloud Professor
The Sara & Jess Cloud Professorship is funded by a 2004 bequest from Sara Cloud in memory of Dr. Jess Cloud, accomplished poet, author, scholar, and former development officer and teacher in the College's Honor Program. The Sara & Jess Cloud Professor is selected by the Dean of Arts and 
Until 2012, the Sara & Jess Cloud Professorship was given to a visiting professor from another university who joined the William & 玛丽 English Department for a semester to teach an advanced course, and collaborate with members of the department on research and other projects.
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- 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.
