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Home / Our people / Professor Paul Muldoon

Professor Paul Muldoon

BA, MA, FRSL

Honorary Fellow

Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet, editor, critic, playwright, lyricist and translator.

Muldoon was Oxford’s Professor of Poetry from 1999 to 2004 and has served as poetry editor at The New Yorker and President of the Poetry Society. He has taught at Princeton University since 1987, where he is Howard G. B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities and the Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His poems have won the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize, among many others.

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