Marguerite Helmers is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. She is a past fellow of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at UW Madison and the University College Dublin Humanities Institute. Dr. Helmers has published two books on Irish artist Harry Clarke with the Irish Academic Press and several articles on the intersections of politics, cultural movements, images, and the written word in early 20th-century Ireland.