Frank Ferguson, researcher on Irish, particularly Northern Irish and Ulster-Scots literature, currently Research Director for English Language and Literature at Ulster University Gerald Dawe is a former Professor of English and Fellow Emeritus, Trinity College Dublin. He has published numerous books, including The Wrong Country:Essays on Modern Irish Writing, The Sound of the Shuttle: Essays on Cultural Belonging & Protestantism in Northern Ireland, In Another World: Van Morrison & Belfast, Looking Through You: Northern Chronicles, and A City Imagined: Belfast Soulscapes. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including the Macaulay Fellowship in Literature.