Kara E. Dempsey is Associate Professor of political geography at Appalachian State University and former Director of Irish Studies at DePaul University. She studies the intersection of politics and geography at various scales, particularly the utilization of space in the
Bradley Kadel holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and is an Associate Professor of History, Fayetteville State University, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He is the author most recently of “Drink and Culture in Nineteenth Century Ireland” (New York/London:
Kathryn Kirkpatrick is Professor of English at Appalachian State University where she teaches environmental literature, creative writing, and Irish studies and co-coordinates the Animal Studies minor. She is the author of seven books of poetry, including collections addressing climate change,
Adrian is from Co. Antrim. He graduated from University of Ulster with a BA in English & Politics, and MPhil in Anglo-Irish Literature. He has delivered writing workshops, readings, and lectures throughout the UK & Ireland, and America. His first
Dr. Jessica Martell is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Appalachian State University in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Her book Farm to Form: Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire (University of Nevada Press,
Rand Brandes is the Martin Luther Stevens Professor of English at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, NC where he has taught since 1988. He received his BA from Hanover College, and his MA and PhD from Emory University. Brandes worked regularly