Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS HEATHER CLARK is assistant professor of English at Marlboro College in Vermont. She holds degrees from Harvard University, Trinity College Dublin, and Oxford University, where she recently completed a doctoral dissertation on the Belfast Group. Her main research interest is poetic collaboration in Northern Ireland; she is currently preparing her dissertation for publication. In 2002 she won the Nevill Coghill Poetry Prize at Oxford. MAUREEN S.G. HAWKINS is assistant professor of English at the University of Lethbridge. She co-edited Global Perspectives on Teaching Literature (1993) and has published articles on eighteenth- through twentiethcentury Irish, British, American, and African drama and film, and on intertextuality and cultural identity. She is currently working on a collection of essays on Irish historical drama and on a book on the structure of modern tragicomedy. KAARINA HOLLO is lecturer in the Celtic Department at the University of Aberdeen, having taught at Harvard University, University College Cork, and Queen’s University, Belfast. Her research interests span Irish-language literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day. She has published on medieval Irish metrics, aspects of the Ulster Cycle, the reception of continental romance in seventeenth-century Gaelic Ireland , and translation from Irish to English in the contemporary context. COLIN IRELAND is resident director of programs in Ireland for Arcadia University’s Center for Education Abroad. He is editor and translator of Old Irish Wisdom Attributed to Aldfrith of Northumbria (1999) and has published on early Irish and English cultures in journals such as Celtica, Peritia, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, Neophilologus, and Neuphilologische Mitteilungen. He also lectures in Old and Middle English at University College Dublin. CONTRIBUTORS 201 SARAH MCKIBBEN teaches Irish studies at the University of Notre Dame. She did her graduate work at Cornell University and at University College Dublin. She has published essays on Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire and the politics of early modern Irish poetry. She is interested in the intersection of Irish studies, feminist theory, and postcolonial theory . DONALD MCNAMARA recently completed his Ph.D. at Catholic University of America after spending more than twenty years as a journalist. His research interests are in the Irish language, the literature of Ireland, and media coverage of Ireland (in both the Republic and Northern Ireland ). He also serves on the executive committee of the North American Association of Celtic Language Teachers. NUALA N DHOMHNAILL is a noted Irish-language poet. She was born in England to Irish-speaking parents and spent a formative period of her childhood in the West Kerry Gaeltacht. She has also lived in Turkey for several years. Although a polyglot, she writes poetry in Irish only and has been translated into English by many of Ireland’s leading poets. Her most recent collection of poems in Irish is Cead Aighnis (1998); her most recent dual-language volume is The Water Horse (1999) with translations by Medbh McGuckian and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. KATHLEEN O’BRIEN is an installation artist, writer, and associate professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University where she also teaches in Irish Studies. She is visual culture editor for the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies and is currently working on a book that examines caoineadh and the politics of the female voice in literature and the visual cultures related to the Irish Famine. E. MOORE QUINN is assistant professor of linguistic anthropology and folklore at the College of Charleston. Her research interests include language and identity, linguistic ideology, the political economy of language, and cross-cultural efforts to revitalize indigenous languages. She is guest editor of a special issue on endangered languages for Cultural Survival Quarterly. She is presently preparing a book on Irish-American folklore from New England. CONTRIBUTORS 202 CONTRIBUTORS 203 MARIA TYMOCZKO is professor of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Trained as a specialist in medieval Irish literature, she also publishes on Irish writing in English and on translation . She is translator of Two Death Tales from the Ulster Cycle (1981). Her book on James Joyce, The Irish “Ulysses” (1994), and her study Translation in a Postcolonial Context: Early Irish Literature in English Translation (1999) have both won book awards from the...