<p>Ruben Borg is an Associate Professor in English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His work has appeared in <i>Journal of Modern Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Poetics Today, <a href="https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/borg-posthuman-modernism">Modernism/modernity</a></i>, and in numerous other journals devoted to twentieth-century literature and film. He has also contributed chapters to collaborative volumes on Deleuze, Beckett, Flann O’Brien, and Posthumanism. Ruben is the author of <span style="border-color: rgb(66, 133, 244);"><i style="border-color: rgb(66, 133, 244);">The Measureless Time of Joyce, Deleuze and Derrida</i></span> (2007), and of <span style="border-color: rgb(66, 133, 244);"><i style="border-color: rgb(66, 133, 244);">Fantasies of Self-Mourning: Modernism, the Posthuman and the Finite</i> </span>(2019). He has co-edited three books on Flann O'Brien: <span style="border-color: rgb(66, 133, 244);"><i style="border-color: rgb(66, 133, 244);">Flann O’Brien: Contesting Legacies</i></span> (listed in The Irish Times top 10 non-fiction books of 2014), <span style="border-color: rgb(66, 133, 244);"><i style="border-color: rgb(66, 133, 244);">Flann O'Brien: Problems with Authority</i></span> (2017) and <span style="border-color: rgb(66, 133, 244);"><i style="border-color: rgb(66, 133, 244);">Flann O'Brien: Gallows Humour</i></span> (2020). His current project is a study of emotions in the work of James Joyce.</p>
<p><span style="text-align: justify;">Dr Paul Fagan is a Research Fellow at LMU Munich and the PI of the Irish Research Council project C<em>elibacy in Irish Women’s Writing, 1860s–1950s</em>. He is a co-founder of the International Flann O’Brien Society and the <em>Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies</em>, and the co-editor of 9 books and special issues, including <em>Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing</em> (Humanities, 2025), <em>Finnegans Wake: Human and Nonhuman Histories</em> (Edinburgh UP, 2024), <em>Flann O'Brien and the Nonhuman: Environments, Animals, Machines</em> (Cork UP, 2024), <em>Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities</em> (Bloomsbury, 2021), and <em>Stage Irish: Performance, Identity, Cultural Circulation</em> (Irish Studies in Europe, 2021). He</span> is currently finalising a monograph on Irish Literary Hoaxes and a podcast seried on 'Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing'.</p>
