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Peggy Pollard is an MFA student in Creative Writing at San Jose State University, She is third generation Californian, descended from immigrants from Killarney and Donegal. She attended ACIS 2023 in San Jose, California. Her first presentation on “The Abused

New to ACIS, Michael received an excellent English education from St. John Jesuit HS, his BA in Sociology from the University of Notre Dame, Teaching & Administrative Credentials from San Jose State University, and his MA in Education-Organization-Leadership from the

Carol Dell’Amico has been teaching British and Irish literature at the California State University, Bakersfield since 2005.

My scholarship centers on Eugene O’Neill, the only American playwright to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the only one to win as many as four Pulitzer Prizes. I am the Co-President of the Eugene O’Neill Foundation,

David Lloyd, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, is a poet, playwright and critic, working primarily on Irish culture and on postcolonial, cultural and aesthetic theory. His most recent critical books include Beckett’s Thing: Painting and