Conference Speakers

Malcolm Sen is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research and teaching focus on questions related to ecology and environment such as climate catastrophe and environmental imperialism, energy transitions and climate wars, the Anthropocene, and changing conceptions of political sovereignty in the twenty-first century.

His literary archive spans Irish and South Asian literatures, and, more broadly, Global Anglophone literatures. He is the Director of Environmental Humanities at UMass Amherst and the PI for The Anthropocene Lab. His books include: Malcolm Sen, Irish Anthropocene: Literature, Climate Change, Sovereignty (New York: Syracuse University Press, Spring 2026); Malcolm Sen and Julie McCormack Weng, Eds., Race and Irish Literature (New York:Cambridge University Press, 2023); Malcolm Sen, Ed. The History of Irish Literature and the Environment (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022); Lucienne Loh and Malcolm Sen, Eds., Postcolonial Studies and the Challenges of the New Millennium (London: Routledge, 2016).

Some of Sen’s recent articles include  “The Poetics of Identity in Contemporary Ireland,” in Eric Falci, Ed., The Cambridge History of Irish Poetry (Cambridge: Cambirdge University Press, 2026); “Climate Wars in the Anthropocene,” in Sharae Deckard, Treasa DeLoughry, and Kerstin Olof, Eds., Routledge Companion on Literature and the Environment (London: Routledge, 2025); “Joyce and Race in the Twenty-First Century,” in Catherine Flynn, Ed., The New Joyce Studies (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022); “An Ordinary Crisis: SARS-CoV-2 and Irish Studies,” in Renée Fox, Mike Cronin, and Brian Ó Conchubhair, Eds., Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies (New York: Routledge, 2021).

Eamonn Wall is a native of Co. Wexford who has lived in St. Louis since 2000. He received degrees from University College, Dublin; the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and a Ph.D. in English from the City University of New York-Graduate Center. From 2000-2025, he worked as the Smurfit-Stone Corporation Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis where he was also a Professor of English.

Eamonn Wall is the author of twelve books including Conocimiento: Writing Irish Borderlands (2025), My Aunts at Twilight Poker (2023), From Oven Lane to Sun Prairie: In Search of Irish America (2019), Junction City: New & Selected Poems (2015); Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions (2011). With Katie Donovan and Michael Considine, he co-edited Distant Summers: Remembering Philip Casey Writer, Fabulist, Friend (2024).

He has published poems, essays, articles, and reviews in many publications including The Irish Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Reading Ireland, New Hibernia Review, Prairie Schooner, and other publications.

Eamonn has received many honors for his writing and community service including the Durkan Prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies for excellence in scholarship; the Irish Echo Award for distinguished service to Irish Arts and Culture in North America; and an award for distinguished community service to St. Louis and Missouri from the Mayor of St. Louis. This year, he was selected as the Honorary Grand Marshal of the Downtown St. Louis St. Patrick’s Day Parade. He is a past-president of the American Conference for Irish Studies.