Burke, Mary M.: - Mary M. Burke is Associate Professor, and Director of Honors (English) and of UConn's Irish Literature Concentration at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of "Tinkers" Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveller (Oxford) and 2017-19 Chair of the MLA Irish Forum Executive Committee. A former Notre Dame NEH Keough-Naughton Fellow, former Boston College-Ireland Visiting Research Fellow, and former President of NEACIS, a regional chapter of the American Conference for Irish Studies, the largest such organization in the US. She is a native of Ireland and a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and Queen's University Belfast. Her current book project considers Ulster-Irish identity and culture in America.