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​Timothy G. McMahon is associate professor of history at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He teaches and researches about Ireland and the British Empire, with interests in national identity, religion, and popular culture. Tim is a past president of the American Conference for Irish Studies and is the author or editor of three books and numerous articles, book chapters, and book reviews. He has held visiting research positions in Dublin, Belfast, and most recently at the University of Melbourne in Australia. In 2017, he received the Robert and Mary Gettel Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence, Marquette’s highest honor for classroom teaching, and in 2018, Marquette awarded him the Way Klingler Fellowship in the Humanities and the Social Sciences.
Cóilín Parsons is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Director of the Global Irish Studies Initiative, and Sonneborn Chair for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Indian Ocean Studies at Georgetown University in Washington DC. His research interests include Irish literature, global modernisms, space and scale, and postcolonial literature and theory. His first monograph was The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature (Oxford, 2016), and he is completing a second monograph on telescopes, astronomy, and scale in modernist literature, as well as a shorter title on James Joyce's Ulysses and the Global South.
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