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My research interests are mainly in modern and contemporary poetry and poetics. I have published on Seamus Heaney’s versions of Dante and Joyce’s use of advertising materials in Ulysses. My article on Micheal O’Siadhail’s poetry recently appeared in Sounding the

Conor O’Shea, RLA, ASLA, is a landscape architect and Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign whose teaching, design, and research explore warehousing and logistics development at the urban / cropland interface,

Kay Martinovich received her PhD in Theatre Historiography from the University of Minnesota, writing her dissertation on the concept of “ghosting” in contemporary Irish and Northern Irish drama. She holds an MPhil in Irish Theatre and Film Studies from Trinity

Stanton Davis received his MFA in acting from the University of Delaware’s Professional Theatre Training Program. He has worked professionally as an actor, director, voice coach, and dialect coach at theatres throughout the country. In his 14th year at NIU,

Gibson Alessandro Cima is an assistant professor of theatre history and head of the bachelor of arts in theatre studies program in Northern Illinois University’s School of Theatre and Dance. His essays on South African theatre and performance, theatre from

Mary Rose is a secondary English teacher in the Chicago Public Schools; labor activist and organizer; and doctoral student in Literacy, Language, and Culture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on critical literacy pedagogy, teacher beliefs

Molly Sturdevant is a writer, editor, and educator. Her prose and poetry appear or are forthcoming in numerous places, including The Dark Mountain Project, Orion Magazine, Newfound, The Comstock Review, Five South, The Nashville Review, The Fourth River, About Place

Jenna Nemec-Loise is an American school librarian and emerging library and information science scholar. Her dissertation, “Delving Differently: A Human Development Approach to School Library Impact Study,” is a qualitative content analysis of school library impact studies in the United