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 at CSU Bakersfield since 2005 and is the author of Colonialism and the Modernist Moment in the Early Novels of Jean Rhys (2005) and “Anne Enright’s The Gathering: Memory, Testimony, Trauma” (2010), amongst other works
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
I have researched, written, published, edited, reviewed, and taught in Irish, British, British Empire, European, and Gender History, and on Ireland and Mexico/Latin America. I have also taught courses in Historiography and Methodology. My favorite course to teach in the
I currently hold a BA in English and Women’s Studies from California State University, Fresno and intend to pursue a graduate education focused on the Irish literary and political traditions, which I don’t believe can be separated.