Agnès Maillot is Associate Professor in the School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University. Her main area of research is the Northern Irish conflict, particularly Sinn Féin and the IRA, on which she has published widely. She is also interested in multiculturalism in France and Ireland and is currently working on issues of refugees and asylum seekers in the French and Irish contexts. Jennifer Bruen is Associate Professor in the School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University. Her research interests include many aspects of applied linguistics as well as political and citizenship education. She has published widely in these and related fields and is currently a member of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Language, Literature, Culture and Communication. Jean-Philippe Imbert lectures in Comparative Literature and Sexuality Studies in the School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University. He researches and publishes on literary and artistic representations of the Mexican, Irish and French twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on the relationship between sexuality, gender and the aesthetic treatment of evil, trauma, angst and perversion.