Mark Connelly

Mark Connelly was born in Philadelphia and grew up in New Jersey. He attended Carroll College and received an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He currently teaches at Milwaukee Area Technical College and serves as Vice President of the Irish Cultural and Heritage Center of Wisconsin. His books include The Diminished Self: Orwell and the Loss of Freedom, Orwell and Gissing, Deadly Closets: The Fiction of Charles Jackson, Fifteen Minutes, and several college textbooks.