Ray Ryan is Senior Commissioning Editor of English and American Literature at Cambridge University Press. He is author of Ireland and Scotland: Literature and Culture, State and Nation, editor of Writing in the Irish Republic: Literature, Culture, Politics, 1949-1999, and co-editor of Ireland and Scotland: Culture and Society, 1700-2000 and The Good of the Novel. William McClung, founder and general partner of University Press Books and former editorial director of the University of California Press, will offer a response to Mr. Ryan's lecture.

Mr. Ryan will also hold an informational session for prospective humaniites authors on Tuesday, January 11 from 9:00 am-12:00 pm and 1:00-3:30 pm.

Co-sponsored by University Press Books.