Maud Ellmann is Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She has written widely on modernism and literary theory: her books include The Poetics of Impersonality: T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound; The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Imprisonment; Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page; and The Nets of Modernism: James, Woolf, Joyce, and Freud. She has also edited a Longman Reader in Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism and, most recently, coedited The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism with Siân White and Vicki Mahaffey.