Phillip Marcus received his graduate degrees from Harvard and began teaching at Cornell in 1967. His fields are nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, Irish and American literature. He has written or edited six books, four of them dealing with W. B. Yeats. Since 1978, he has been co-general editor of the Cornell Yeats Series, an edition of manuscript materials that currently runs to thirty volumes. He held a number of administrative positions, including director of graduate studies, director of the Summer Writing Program, and faculty adviser of the men's lacrosse team. Since 1995 he has also been a tenured full professor at Florida International University in Miami, where he teaches full-time and has won two University Faculty Awards for Excellence in Teaching. He lives on the ocean in Pompano Beach, Florida.