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Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration at Maynooth University, 2015-present. Director of the Maynooth Centre for European and Eurasian Studies, 2010-present. Lecturer in European Politics, Maynooth University, 2007-15. Previously, Lecturer in European Politics at University of Limerick, 2002-2004. Government of

Sinéad Kennedy is a Senior University Tutor in English at Maynooth University specialising in Marxist theory, gender and sexuality in Irish writing and culture. She completed her doctorate in critical theory and modernism at Maynooth University. She is currently completing

Lauren Arrington is Professor of English at Maynooth University. Her books include The Poets of Rapallo (OUP, 2021), Revolutionary Lives: Constance and Casimir Markievicz (Princeton UP, 2016), and Adding the Half-Pence to the Pence: W.B. Yeats, the Abbey Theatre, Censorship,

Lynsey Black is a lecturer in criminology in Maynooth University’s School of Law and Criminology. Her research explores historical criminology, gender and punishment, the death penalty, postcolonialism and borders. Her monograph ‘Gender and Punishment in Ireland: Women, Murder and the

Rory James Corbett is a PhD candidate in the Department of Music at Maynooth University, where he is currently completing his doctoral thesis. Rory’s research explores the cultural symbiosis which took place between Irish, African American and blackface minstrel music

Julie Morrissy is an Irish poet, academic, critic, and activist. She was the first Poet-in-Residence at the National Library of Ireland from 2021-2022. Her awards include the National Endowment for the Humanities, Newman Fellowship in Creativity, MAKE Theatre Award, and