Matthew Ayres earned his PhD in Literature and Criticism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2015. Under the direction of Dr. James Cahalan, Dr. Ayres’s dissertation “But Where Can We Draw Water?” Ideology, Myth, and Legend in Twentieth-Century Irish Literature was nominated for an Outstanding Dissertation Award at IUP. He has presented at both the regional and national ACIS in the past. He currently resides in New Jersey and is an Associate Professor of English at the County College of Morris in Randolph, NJ.