Michael Cavanagh (Ph.D.) specializes in modern poetry, English and Irish literature from 1800 to the present, Milton, Dante, and Joyce. His publications have appeared in English Literary History, The Journal of Modern Literature, Papers in Language and Literature, The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Lectura Dantis, and elsewhere. Most recently he has written a study of W.B. Yeats's death-bed, Dante-style poem, "Cuchulain Comforted."
Prof. Cavanagh's book on Seamus Heaney, Professing Poetry: Seamus Heaney's Poetics, was published in June of 2009 by Catholic University Press. It will appear in paperback late in the summer of 2010. Cavanagh's poems have appeared or will appear in The Aurorean, The South Dakota Quarterly and Eclipse.
Cavanagh is now at work on a book about Paradise Lost.
