Lucy McDiarmid is Professor of English at Villanova University. She has been the Carole and Gordon Segal Visiting Professor of Irish Literature at Northwestern University and Visiting Professor of English at Princeton. A former president of the American Conference for Irish Studies, McDiarmid is also author of Saving Civilization: Yeats, Eliot, and Auden between the Wars and Auden's Apologies for Poetry, and coeditor of High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture 1889-1939 and Lady Gregory: Selected Writings. She is a fellow of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library for 2005-2006.