Timothy (Tim) McMahon is associate professor of history at Marquette University in Milwaukee. He currently serves as President of the American Conference for Irish Studies. In 2018, he received the Way-Klingler Research Fellowship in the Humanities to support his research into identity along the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland. Previously, he was the Rev. William Neenan, S.J., Visiting Fellow at Boston College-Ireland. Dr. McMahon is presently co-editing a collection of essays entitled Ireland’s Imperial Cultures, 1800-1950, and writing a monograph tentatively entitled Éire Imperator: Ireland’s Imperial Ambivalence that interrogates the efforts of Irish men and women to build and manage the British Empire while others worked to undermine it.

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.