A Conversation Between Anthony Cuda and Ron Schuchard

Ronald Schuchard has been with Emory’s English Department for decades and has been at the center of many fortuitous moments of Rose Library’s history. Join us as Ron and his former PhD Student, Professor Anthony Cuda, travel back to Ron’s first day as an assistant professor on Emory’s campus to begin the story of how one special collections archive came to be.
Ronald Schuchard, the Goodrich C. White Professor of English and Irish Studies, Emeritus, Emory University, is the author of numerous studies of modern authors, particularly T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats. His Eliot’s Dark Angel won the Robert Penn Warren / Cleanth Brooks Prize for outstanding literary criticism, and his The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts won the Robert Rhodes Prize for an outstanding book on Irish literature. He is co-editor with John Kelly of three volumes of The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats and general editor of the eight-volume online and print editions of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he is presently a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. To view the finding aid for Ron's papers, click here.

Anthony Cuda is a scholar and university professor who teaches classes on twentieth-century poetry, British and American literature of the modernist period (1900-1945), Dante, and American literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of The Passions of Modernism: Eliot, Yeats, Woolf and Mann (University of South Carolina Press, 2010). With Ronald Schuchard, he co-edited of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, The Critical Edition. Vol. II: The Perfect Critic: 1919-1926 (London and Baltimore: Faber & Faber and Johns Hopkins UP, 2014), which was awarded the Modernist Studies Association 2015 Book Prize for an edition, anthology, or collection. Cuda’s reviews of contemporary poetry have appeared in The Washington Post Book World, The New Criterion, FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, The International Poetry Review, and the American Book Review. Learn more here.
 
Other collections discussed in the episode:

Finding aid for Seamus Heaney's papers.
Finding aid for the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature.