Contributors
- Contributors
James Byrne (james_byrne@wheatoncollege.edu) is visiting assistant professor of English at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts. His interests lie in American, environmental, and multicultural literature, particularly in the intersections of tropes of identity, such as race, gender, class, nationalism, and space. He has coedited Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (3 volumes, ABC-CLIO, 2008) and Affecting Irishness: Negotiating Cultural Identity Within and Beyond the Nation (Peter Lang, 2009), and has published essays on Irish and American cultural identity in a number of collections and journals, including MELUS and IJAS.
Gavin Doyle (doyleg5@tcd.ie) holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin, where he researched the intersections of Irishness and queerness in the work of five American authors–namely, Eileen Myles, James McCourt, Peggy Shaw, Stephanie Grant, and Alice McDermott. Doyle's PhD research was funded by the Irish Research Council.
Danelle Dyckhoff Stelzriede is the Interim Director of First-Year Writing and visiting faculty in English at California State University, Los Angeles. She holds a PhD in English from Claremont Graduate University and specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American historical fiction. In addition to teaching courses in American studies, English, and first-year student success, Dyckhoff Stelzriede has developed several academic and co-curricular initiatives for first-generation college students, including first-year learning communities, a study abroad program in the Dominican Republic, and a journal of multimedia scholarship by first-generation students. Her research interests include contemporary representations of nineteenth-century US empire-building, spectrality and haunting in narratives of American history and culture, and first-generation college experiences and identities.
Sally Barr Ebest (sebest@umsl.edu) is professor emerita in the Department of English and former Director of Gender Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her publications include the coedited collection Reconciling Catholicism and Feminism?: Personal Reflections on Tradition and Change (U of Notre Dame P, 2004), Changing the Way We Teach: Writing and Resistance in the Training of Teaching Assistants (Southern Illinois UP, 2005), the coedited collection Too Smart to Be Sentimental: Contemporary Irish American Women Writers (U of Notre Dame P, 2008), and The Banshees: A Literary History of Irish American Women Writers (Syracuse UP, 2013), as well as articles in New Hibernia Review, Religion and Literature, Women: A Cultural Review, and The Journal of Feminist Scholarship, and chapters in The Catholic Church and Unruly Women Writers: Critical Essays (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), After the Flood: Irish America, 1945-1960 (Irish Academic P, 2009), and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction.
Korey Garibaldi (kgaribal@nd.edu) teaches at the University of Notre Dame. He is working on a manuscript tentatively titled Before Black Power: The Rise and Fall of Interracial Literary Culture, 1908-1968. Most recently, he has written a short essay "De/Provincializing Europe," published online by Contending Modernities, and an article reconnecting Henry James and Gertrude Stein that appeared in The Henry James Review in 2018. A book chapter "Sketching in an Age of Anxiety: Henry James's Morganatic Baroness in The Europeans," in Reading Henry James in the Twenty-First Century: Heritage and Transmission (Cambridge Scholars P, 2019), reflects his latest research interests in the Jamesian canon.
Loretta Goff (loretta.alphaville@gmail.com) recently completed her PhD in Film and Screen Media at University College Cork. Goff teaches at the BA and MA level in the School of English as well as Film and Screen Media at UCC. She is also an editorial board member of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media and her own writing has been published in Persona Studies, Alphaville, Estudios Irlandeses, The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies and Film Ireland. Her research interests principally focus on film and identity, genre, stardom and contemporary representations of Irish America.
John Hay (john.hay@unlv.edu) is an assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he specializes in nineteenth-century US literature. He is the author of Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature (Cambridge UP, 2017). His articles have appeared in journals such as the New England Quarterly, ESQ, Philosophy and Literature, and Science Fiction Film and Television. He has also written for Public Books. He is...
