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Kelly Matthews is Professor of English at Framingham State University. She holds degrees from Harvard, Trinity College Dublin, Boston University, and Ulster University. Her first book, The Bell Magazine and the Representation of Irish Identity, was published by Four Courts

Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel’s monographs include Bernard Shaw, Sean O’Casey, and the Dead James Connolly, Springer, 2021, Bernard Shaw, W. T. Stead, and the New Journalism, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, and Shaw, Synge, Connolly, and Socialist Provocation, University Press of Florida, 2011.

My responsibilities include leading and coordinating the strategic acquisition, budgetary management, and maintenance of Boston College Libraries’ general collections as well as directing the John J. Burns Library for rare books, special collections, and archives, and contributing to the overall