Sister Rita Michael Scully, SSJ, an Associate Professor of English, is the senior member of the CHC English department. Sister has taught an array of courses from her specialization in medieval (Chaucer) to early modern British literature (Shakespeare) as well as other British and Irish poetry courses. Sister Rita also taught in Japan and created CHC’s course in modern Japanese Literature. For twenty-five years, Sister Rita Sister led the department’s “intersession” Study Abroad course in London. She has published work on Irish Poets William Butler Yeats and Seamus Heaney. She has also written about kinship in Shakespeare’s plays.