Ellen Scheible is a professor of English and director of honors at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. She is the author of Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction: The Literary Legacy of Mother Ireland and coeditor of Rethinking Joyce's "Dubliners."

Barry Devine is an associate professor of English at Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio. His recent work appears in The Cambridge Centenary "Ulysses" and The Irish Bildungsroman.