Claire Denelle Cowart teaches at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana, and has been working in the field of Irish literature for many years. She has published on Somerville and Ross in The Dictionary of Literary Biography and The Review of Irish Studies in Europe, as well as a chapter titled “Ghost Writers?” in That Other World: The Supernatural and the Fantastic in Irish Literature and its Contexts. Vol. 1. Additionally, she wrote a chapter on Maria Edgeworth for Irish Women Writers, ed. Alex Gonzalez, and has been working on connections between a Cajun language play about language loss and Brian Friel’s Translations. She has also presented conference papers on the works of William Trevor, Jennifer Johnston, Molly Keane, Joseph O’Neill, and Adrian McKinty.