Dr.Clare Udras Ellis read for her undergraduate degree at the University of Malta and graduated summa cum laude in 2001. She then completed her M.A., writing a dissertation on 'Myth and History in the Poetry of Byron, Shelley and Keats' and graduating with distinction in 2003.

She subsequently taught at the European School of English and St. Martin's College before joining the Department of English Studies at the University of Malta Junior College in 2004, where she teaches English at both Advanced and Intermediate Levels. She has also been a visiting lecturer in the Theatre Studies Programme and the Department of English at the University of Malta.

She successfully defended her Ph.D thesis entitled ''Time's Wide Wings': Concepts of Time in British Romanticism with a particular focus on the Poetry of John Keats' in July 2013, graduating in November 2013.

Dr. Udras Ellis has written papers on British Romanticism as well as on the work of Katherine Mansfield. Her research to date has focussed on temporality in literature. Other research interests include the short story and the contemporary British novel.