Rebecca Pelan has worked in Ireland, Australia, and America in the fields of English, women’s studies, and Irish studies, and has published extensively on Irish fiction and drama. She was the general editor of Irish Feminist Review and worked in University College Dublin’s Gender Studies Outreach program for several years before retiring in 2017. Between 2014 and 2022, Pelan was a volunteer with and then a staff member of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.