W. Ronald Schuchard teaches 20th-century British, Irish and Anglophone literature at Emory University, where he is Goodrich C. White Professor of English. He is the driving force behind Emory's Irish and English manuscript collections, as well as the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature, featuring such literary icons as Seamus Heaney and Mario Vargas Llosa. Dr. Schuchard's 1999 study of T.S. Eliot, Eliot's Dark Angel (Oxford U P , 1999) won SAMLA's book award as well as the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism.

Dr. Schuchard has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Senior Lectureship (Greece), the M. L. Rosenthal Award for distinguished contributions to Yeats studies, three University of London research fellowships, visiting fellowships at Wolfson College, Oxford; Trinity College, Dublin; and Queen's University, Belfast; and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

He is editor of T. S. Eliot's Clark and Turnbull Lectures, The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry (1993), and co-editor with John Kelly of The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats, Volume 3 (Oxford University Press, 1994), Volume 4 and Volume 5 (forthcoming) and the The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, to be published by Faber and Faber in London and by The Johns Hopkins University Press. He also serves on the editorial boards of Yeats Annual, The Recorder: Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, and Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and the advisory boards of The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett and the W. B. Yeats Drama Foundation.

A former director of Emory's British Studies Program at University College, Oxford, and of the Yeats International Summer School in Sligo, Ireland, Dr. Schuchard also belongs to the T. S. Eliot Society (Honorary Member) of St. Louis, the American Conference for Irish Studies, the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, and the Grolier Club of New York.