University of South Florida

I’m a working orthopedic surgeon who is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of South Florida. My research interests include the Irish American response in WWII and the barriers to entry into elite American society Irish Americans faced in

PUBLICATIONS Ricketts, Elizabeth. “Disrupting Mythological Foundations of Identity: Hugh O’Neill, Making History, and the Troubles.” Critical Inquiries into Irish Studies, vol. 1, no. 2. ARTICLES SUBMITTED TO, OR IN PROGRESS FOR, PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS “Spenser’s Colonialism and Shakespeare’s Critique: The ‘Irish