<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>
<span style="text-align: justify;">Dr Paul Fagan is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University, and a co-founder of the International Flann O’Brien Society. Paul is a founding general editor of the <i style="text-align: justify;">Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies</i> and <i style="text-align: justify;">Production Archives</i>, both published by the Open Library of Humanities. Paul is the co-editor of <i style="text-align: justify;">Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities</i> (with John Greaney & Tamara Radak; Bloomsbury, 2021) and <i style="text-align: justify;">Stage Irish: Performance, Identity, Cultural Circulation</i> (with </span><span style="text-align: justify;">Dieter Fuchs & Radak; </span><span style="text-align: justify;">Irish Studies in Europe, 2021) as well as four well-received edited volumes on Flann O’Brien from Cork University Press: </span><i>Contesting Legacies</i> (with Ruben Borg and Werner Huber; 2014), <i>Problems with Authority</i> (with Borg and John McCourt; 2017), <i>Gallows Humour </i>(with Borg; 2020), and <i>Acting Out </i>(with Fuchs; 2022). Paul is currently finalising a monograph on Irish Literary Hoaxes and developing research projects on 'Representations of Nonhuman Skin in Modernist Writing' and 'Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing, 1860s-1950s'.
