Jessie Wirkus Haynes is a Ph.D. candidate and instructor at Marquette University with interests in Irish and British literature of the long 19th century, gothic literature, and gender studies. She has presented multiple papers on Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, and Flann O’Brien, and her dissertation specifically considers the fluid nature of national and personal identities through an exploration of what it meant to be an Irish author under and after British rule.