Preface

Author Biographies

• Alan Gilsenan

  Alan Gilsenan is an Irish writer, filmmaker and theatre director. His most recent work includes the cinema documentary Meetings with Ivor, the feature film Unless, based on a novel by Carol Shields and The Meeting, which he wrote and directed and premiered at the 2018 Dublin Film Festival. Gilsenan is a former chairperson of the Irish Film Institute. He also served on the Irish Film Board, and on the board of the International Dance Festival Ireland. Between 2009 and 2014, Gilsenan served on the board of Raidió Teilifís Éireann, where he chaired the Editorial and Creative Output Committee. He is currently on the Board of Fighting Words, a creative writing centre for young people founded by Sean Love & novelist Roddy Doyle

• Munira H. Mutran, Universidade de São Paulo

  Munira H. Mutran is Associate Professor of Literatures in English at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She specializes in Irish Literature and Comparative Studies. She holds an MA, a PhD and a post-doctoral thesis [Livre Docência] at the University of São Paulo and an Honorary Degree in Letters at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She was coeditor of The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies (1996-2018) and of Lectures, a series of books with lectures given at the W. B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies at USP. She has published articles and chapters in books on Irish fiction and drama, two collections of Irish short stories translated into Portuguese, Joyce no Brasil (1997), Sean O’Faolain’s Letters to Brazil (2005), Álbum de Retratos [A Portrait Album, 2002] and A Batalha das Estéticas [Aesthetic Movements in Battle, 2005]. In 2018 she received “The Presidential Distinguished Service Award”.

• Mariana Bolfarine, Universidade Federal de Rondonópolis

  Mariana Bolfarine holds a PhD from the University of São Paulo, and was research fellow at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (2013-2014). Dr Bolfarine teaches at the Federal University of Rondonópolis (UFR), is a researcher at the WB Yeats Chair of Irish Studies and head of the Brazilian Association of Irish Studies. She has translated into Portuguese: Roger Casement in Brazil: Rubber, the Amazon and the Atlantic World 1884-1916 (2010) and the Amazon Journal of Roger Casement (2016), and is the author of Between “Angels and Demons”: Trauma in Fictional representations of Roger Casement (2018).