Peggy Dunn Sturba was a professor of English and former department chair of English, Foreign Languages, and Philosophy at the public liberal arts university of Arkansas, Henderson State, before a “retrenchment” begun in 2022 and completed in 2023 led to the elimination of her department, along with virtually all liberal arts programs and faculty. Her research interests include Irish culture and literature (especially 19th century to contemporary), contemporary fiction of the Caribbean, Gothicism, and British Romanticism. Her publications (as Peggy Dunn Bailey) include a number of scholarly, peer-reviewed essays on “female Gothic” literature as well as essays on 19th century British poetry and contemporary fiction of the Caribbean. She has presented most recently on contemporary Irish fiction (McCormack’s _Solar Bones_) and poetry by British Romantic women writers. A passionate teacher-scholar, she was thrilled to offer the first course in Irish Literature and Film at Henderson in 2020.