Emeritus Research Professor of English, Missouri Univ. of Science & Technology.

Books:

Edition: The Martyrdom of Maev and Other Irish Stories of Harold Frederic. Catholic U of America 2015.

Through American And Irish Wars: The Life and Times of General Thomas W. Sweeny. Irish Academic Pr 2006.

New World Irish. Palgrave, 2011.

Edition W/ Louis Renza: The Irish Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett. Southern Illinois UP 1996.

Joyces City: History, Politics, and Life in Dubliners. U of Missouri Pr. 2015.

Main Research interest has been 19th century Irish immigration reflected in American Literature