Jose Lanters is professor of English emerita at UWM, and a former co-director of the UWM Center for Celtic Studies. She specializes in modern Irish literature and has published extensively on Irish drama and fiction, including several articles on the plays and films of Martin McDonagh. Her books include The “Tinkers” in Irish Literature: Unsettled Subjects and the Construction of Difference (Irish Academic Press, 2008), and The Theatre of Thomas Kilroy: No Absolutes (Cork University Press, 2018).