Dr. Elizabeth Cullingford

Biography

Elizabeth Butler Cullingford holds the Jane Weinert Blumberg Chair in English Literature and is a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers at the University of Texas at Austin. She served as Chair of the English Department from 2006 to 2019 and received the Pro Bene Meritis Award from the College of Liberal Arts in 2016. Her books include 'Ireland’s 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). Cullingford earned her doctorate from Oxford and has taught at the University of Texas at Austin since 1980. She has won numerous teaching prizes, including the President’s Associates Teaching Award and the Teaching with Technology Gold Award for her multimedia survey course 'Masterworks of British Literature'. From 1985 to 1990, she served as assistant director and director of the Yeats International Summer School in Sligo, Ireland, and she frequently teaches and directs the UT English Department’s Oxford Summer Program. Recent journal articles include 'Abortion and Environment: China’s One-child Policy in Mo Yan’s Frog and Ma Jian’s Dark Road' (Signs, 2019) and 'American Dreams: Emigration and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction' (Eire/Ireland, 2014). She is currently completing a book titled 'Child in a Crowded World: Narrative, Character, Environment', an interdisciplinary feminist/environmentalist project analyzing literary depictions of children in contexts provided by religion, folklore, history, demography, and sociology.

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