Robert Schmuhl is the inaugural Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Chair in American Studies and Journalism at the University of Notre Dame. After graduating from Notre Dame with a B.A. and Indiana University-Bloomington with a Ph.D. in English and American Studies, Schmuhl joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1980. He has also held visiting fellowship or teaching positions at the University of Notre Dame of Australia, University College Dublin, St. Augustine College of South Africa, Notre Dame’s London Centre, Dublin City University, and the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford. Schmuhl is the author or editor of fifteen books, most recently, Ireland’s Exiled Children: America and the Easter Rising, Fifty Years with Father Hesburgh: On and Off the Record, and The Glory and the Burden: The American Presidency from FDR to Trump.
Books in order of publication:
Statecraft and Stagecraft: American Political Life in the Age of Personality, Second Edition – 1990
Demanding Democracy – 1994
Indecent Liberties – 1999
Making Words Dance: Reflections on Red Smith, Journalism, and Writing – 2010
Fifty Years with Father Hesburgh: On and Off the Record – 2016
Ireland’s Exiled Children: America and the Easter Rising – 2016
The Glory and the Burden: The American Presidency from FDR to Trump. – 2019
Mr. Churchill in the White House: The Untold Story of a Prime Minister and Two Presidents – 2024
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