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Ph.D. Student in History with the University of North Texas. My work concentrates primarily on the interplay of culture and identity in migrant Irish populations of the 20th and 21st centuries

Emma Webb is a master’s student in musicology at Rice University in Houston, TX. Her previous research pertained to Romantic piano literature and she was awarded for her presentation at the Lee University’s Undergraduate Research Symposium for “Metrical Dissonance in

Lawrence Welsh is an English professor at El Paso Community College. He has published 13 books of poetry, including Begging for Vultures: New and Selected Poems (University of New Mexico Press). This collection won the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. It

Erin Valentine is a PhD student studying performance studies at University of Texas at Austin. Her doctoral research focuses on performances of colonialism, looking specifically at how Irish American immigrants participated in the colonization of North America. Her masters thesis

Lawrence Welsh has published 12 books of poetry, including Begging for Vultures: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2009 (University of New Mexico Press). This collection won the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. It was also named a Notable Book by Southwest Books