Richard Kearney holds the Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and was a visiting professor at the University of Paris and University College Dublin. He is the author of many books on Irish culture and literature including Transitions: Narratives of Modern Irish Culture (1987), The Crane Bag Book of Irish Studies (1983), Postnationalist Ireland (1988) and Navigations: CollecteI Irish Essays 1977-2006 (2006). He has also published two novels and a volume of poetry. He is co-director of the Guestbook Project for Exchanging Stories with Sheila Gallagher.
Sheila Gallagher is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and professor of art at Boston College. She has had numerous exhibitions at galleries, museums, and universities in the U.S. and internationally, including the Moving Image Festival, London, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Crystal Bridges Museum, Arkansas. Gallagher is co-director of The Becker Archive, the largest private collection of US Civil War drawings.
