Marjorie Elizabeth HowesMarjorie Elizabeth Howes is an Associate Professor of English and Irish Studies at Boston College, Massachusetts. She is the author of Yeats's Nations: Gender, Class, and Irishness (Cambridge, 1996), and winner of the Michael J. Durkan Prize for the ear's best book in literary as well as cultural studies awarded by the American Conference for Irish Studies. Howes also authored Colonial Crossings: Figures in Irish Literary History (2006) and was a co-editor for three other books, including The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats (Cambridge, 2006). From 2003-10, she was also the co-director of the Irish Studies Program at Boston College. Read More Read Less