Dr. Stephen Enniss

Biography

Stephen Enniss is the Director of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He has held appointments at prestigious institutions, including the Folger Shakespeare Library and Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Enniss has contributed significantly to the archives at the University of Texas, working with notable collections that include works by Nobel Laureates Gabriel García Márquez and Kazuo Ishiguro. His leadership has focused on curatorial excellence, expanding the Center’s instructional programs, and enhancing the conservation care of the university’s distinctive research collections. Enniss’s research interests primarily lie in twentieth-century poetry, with a particular focus on the works of Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Seamus Heaney. He co-curated the acclaimed Grolier Club exhibition “No Appetite”: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Blood Jet Poetry. A past recipient of the Leverhulme Fellowship from the University of London, he is also the author of Titanic: Life Derek Mahon (2014) and is currently working on a collective biography of the poets associated with the Belfast Group.

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