Donna L. Potts is Professor and Chair of the English Departmant at Washington State University. She held a Fulbright Lecturing Award at the National University of Ireland in Galway from 1997 to 1998, and is the author of two books on Irish Literature (Irish Poetry and the Pastoral Tradition (UM Press 2012) and Contemporary Irish Writing and Environmentalism (Palgrave 2018), one book of poetry published in Ireland (Salmon, 2011); and the editor of three books on Irish Literature.