Awards

Titled Professor - 2019 - 2024

Martha Biggerstaff Jones Professorship in British Literature

About Patricia Clare Ingham

Patricia Clare Ingham earned her B.A. in history from Loyola University in 1980. She completed her M.A. in systematic theology in 1988. She later earned an additional M.A. from the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 1992. Upon obtainment, she continued her education at UCSB where she earned her Ph.D. in English in 1995. Ingham joined the Indiana University (IU) faculty in 2003 as an associate professor of English. She served as the chairperson of the Department of English from 2016 to 2020. Soon after, she began serving as the director of the Institute of Advanced Study within the Office of the Vice Provost for Research. In 2019, she was awarded the additional, honorary title of Martha Biggerstaff Jones Professor in British Literature.

Ingham focuses her scholarly work on assessing the reach and limits of the imagination, both during the Middle Ages and in the ways the Middle Ages are thought about in the present period. She is the author of three books, including “The Medieval New Ambivalence in an Age of Innovation”, “Sovereign Fantasies Arthurian Romance and the Making of Britain”, and “Sovereign Fantasies: Arthurian Romance and the Making of Britain”.

At IU, Ingham co-founded the Institute for the Humanistic Study of Innovation. She has also been a fellow at the National Humanities Center, and her work is supported by the National Endowment for Humanities.