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, will appear in June 2009, published by Catholic University Press.
Cavanagh is now at work on a book about Paradise Lost.