Violet has a B.A. from the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Houston, and an M.A. and PhD. in British and American literature from Texas A&M University. She wrote her master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation on the

Virginie Roche-Tiengo, is an Associate Professor in Irish Studies at the University d’Artois. Following her Ph.D. at the Sorbonne on Lost Unity: The Poetics of Myth in the Theatre of the Irish Playwright Brian Friel, she has published on Irish

Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook Professor Emerita, English, St. John’s University, New York Career at St. John’s spanned: 15 years as full-time administrator, culminating in positions as Senior Associate Dean, College of Professional Studies and Associate Director of University Abroad