Annie Curran received a BA in English and Film & Media Studies from the College of William and Mary. She will attend University College Cork, where she will complete a taught Masters in Irish Writing and Film. Her research will focus on tracing contemporary Irish-American literary and filmic tropes back to Irish literature.

Amanda Wagstaff earned a BA in Art and Art History from the College of William and Mary and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. As a Fulbright Fellow, she will research Celtic Christian monasticism and text/art objects at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin.