Michael Patrick Gillespie. After receiving his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1980, he taught for twenty-nine years at Marquette University as an Assistant, Associate, and a Full Professor and finally as the inaugural Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English. He has written a fifteen books (on the works of James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, William Kennedy, Chaos Theory, Classic Hollywood Cinema, and Irish Film) and two monographs. He has edited eight other works, including two volumes in the Norton Critical Edition of authors. He has also written over eighty articles and book chapters relating to English and Irish studies. He has been on the advisory boards of a half dozen scholarly journals, and he has served as a reader for thirteen university presses. He has received fellowships or grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the Humanities Research Center, the William Andrews Clark Library, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Wisconsin Humanities Council, and Marquette University. He has been named as a featured speaker in the Joseph Schick Lecture Series and gave one of the Lawrence McBride Memorial Lectures. He is the only American recipient of the Charles Fanning Medal for Distinguished Work in Irish Studies. He came to Florida International University in the fall of 2009 and currently serves there as a Professor of English having for five years directed the Center for the Humanities in an Urban Environment. He has been named a Distinguished Scholar by Florida International University, and is a STEM Institute Founding Fellow. Gillespie has been on the Board of Trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation and on the Board of Consultants for the Zurich James Joyce Foundation. He has been Secretary, Vice-President, and President of the American Conference for Irish Studies. He has most recently published Reading James Joyce (Routledge 2023). Though he claims to be a legend in his own mind, putting backspin on a golf ball lofted onto a green is a skill that still eludes him.