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Joseph Heininger is a Professor of English at Dominican University. His interests include modern and contemporary Irish poetry and poetics. He has published on Heaney’s Dante and Joyce’s use of advertising fictions in Ulysses, and on Micheal O’Siadhail’s Gossamer Wall.

Jane Elizabeth Dougherty is a scholar of Irish women’s writing and gender in Irish writing. She has a forthcoming book on Irish female maturation narratives.

Golden’s Blood Desert: Witnesses 1820-1880, University of New Mexico Press won the WILLA Literary Award for poetry, was named a Southwest Notable Book of the Year 2012 and was a Finalist for the New Mexico Book Award. The Music of