Nicole McClure is an Assistant Professor of English at Kutztown University where she teaches international film, documentary film, and film theory. Her research interests are in Irish cinema, human rights, film activism, and adaptation. Her article, “Injured bodies, silenced voices: Reclaiming personal trauma and the narration of pain in Northern Ireland” appeared in a special issue of Peace and Change: Bodily Pain and Peace and Human Rights: Thirty Years after Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain. She has written on film depictions of youth, violence, and reconciliation in her essay “They were only kids: Public reconciliation for misguided youth in Five Minutes of Heaven” which was printed in Country of the Young:Interpretations of Youth and Childhood in Irish Culture. Her forthcoming work on Breakfast on Pluto explores film adaptation in Irish literature as a means of re-visioning myths of failed fatherhood and parallels to contemporary fatherhood in Ireland.