Filomena Louro is one of the founding members of EFACIS and teaches Irish Literature and Translation Studies at the University of Minho, Portugal.

Irena Grubica is Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Rijeka, Croatia, where she teaches Modern Irish literature and English Neo-Classicism and Romanticism. Her interests include nineteenth and twentieth-century English and Irish literature, translation studies and cultural criticism. She graduated in Comparative Literature and English Literature from the University of Zagreb. She defended her first M.A. thesis on the Bakhtin’s concept of dialogism and the carnival in Ulysses.

Britta Olinder, University of Gothenburg, has taught English literatures for over thirty years, edited collections on postcolonial, especially Irish and Canadian literature and published books and articles on Restoration literary theory and drama, (particularly John Dryden,) on African, Australian, Indian and Canadian writing and of Irish writers on Eavan Boland, Anne Devlin, John Hewitt, James Joyce, Deirdre Madden, Paula Meehan and Christina Reid.

Dr. Seán Crosson is President of the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) and a lecturer in NUI Galway. He has published widely in Irish Studies, particularly in the areas of Irish poetry (in both English and Irish) and Irish film. His monograph ‘The Given Note': Traditional Music and Modern Irish Poetry (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008) includes translations from the work of contemporary Irish-language poets as well as a consideration of the impact of music on W.B. Yeats’s work.

Hedwig Schwall is the director of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (LCIS) and former chair of EFACIS, the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies. She translated English and German poetry into Dutch (Yeats, Wordsworth, Goethe, Tieck) and publishes on Yeats (most recently with Liverpool UP, 2015) and contemporary Irish writers, using an interdisciplinary and psychoanalytic approach. She is on the editorial board of several journals of Irish Studies, among which the new journal of the International Yeats Society.