Dr. Julia C. Obert is Associate Professor and Assistant Chair in the Department of English at the University of Wyoming. She works primarily in the fields of postcolonial literature and theory, Irish literature, poetry and poetics, affect theory, and sound studies/acoustic ecology. Her first book, Postcolonial Overtures: The Politics of Sound in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry, was published by Syracuse University Press in 2015. Her writing has also appeared in a wide variety of Postcolonial Studies, Irish Studies, and critical theory volumes and journals.