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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

Marie Hulme is a lecturer in the Department of Languages and Literature at Sacred Heart University. She received her B.A. in English from Smith College, an M.A. in English and American Literature from New York University, and an M.F.A in

Dr. Cliff Dudley has been involved in the education field for forty years as a teacher and administrator. He has taught for the University of Bridgeport, Sacred Heart University, Southern CT State University and the University of New Haven. Additionally,