Grace Neville is a professor emerita of French at University College Cork.

Sarah Nolan is the current President of AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish Studies) and programme chair in the Department of Humanities and Arts Management in IADT (Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire) where she lectures on Urban, American, and Contemporary Anglophone and Irish Literature.

Eugene O'Brien is Professor of English Literature and Theory, and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature in Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick.