Hilary Mhic Suibhne (Sweeney) teaches Irish language at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield CT and is External Examiner (Irish) at Vassar College, NY. www.hilarysweeney.com/writing Edited American Journal of Irish Studies,Volume 13, Irish Language Edition, Glucksman Ireland House NYU (2016). Co-edited and
Barbara A. Clark, Ed.D. (2004), University of Hartford, is an artist and Professor of Education at CCSU, USA. She has published articles and book chapters on aesthetic education and moral imagination, including Echoes from a Child’s Soul: Awakening the Moral
Mckenzie Bergan (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the University of Connecticut. She studies haunting in the Gothic novel.
I work at the intersection of theatre and performance studies and theology and religious studies, especially the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. I’m currently working on multiple projects that intersect with Irish playwrights, ritual theory, ecology, and the writings of John Moriarty.
Judith Stapleton studies nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish and British art at Yale University. Her dissertation, entitled Sly Modernism: William Orpen and the Making of Modern Irish Art, appraises the artist’s position within the cognate fields of Irish, British, and continental
BA from UC Berkeley in English, Minor in Celtic Studies. PhD from Fordham University in American Literature. Professor at Sacred Heart University since 2003. Book: The Haunted Muse: Gothic and Sentiment in American Literature. Poetry in The American Journal of