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Paul Fagan

Roles:
Author, Copyeditor, Editor, Production Manager, Proofing Manager, Proofreader, Reviewer, Section Editor

Editorial groups:
General Editors

Affiliation:
Department of English, Maynooth University

Country:
Ireland

Biography


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 Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies and Production Archives, both published by the Open Library of Humanities. Paul is the co-editor of Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities (with John Greaney & Tamara Radak; Bloomsbury, 2021) and Stage Irish: Performance, Identity, Cultural Circulation (with Dieter Fuchs & Radak; Irish Studies in Europe, 2021) as well as four well-received edited volumes on Flann O’Brien from Cork University Press: Contesting Legacies (with Ruben Borg and Werner Huber; 2014), Problems with Authority (with Borg and John McCourt; 2017), Gallows Humour (with Borg; 2020), and Acting Out (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'.

Publications


Flann O’Brien’s Vibrant Atmospheres

Flann O’Brien’s Vibrant Atmospheres

Paul Fagan

2024-08-15 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1–24


Reflections on the First Decade of the International Flann O’Brien Society

Reflections on the First Decade of the International Flann O’Brien Society

Paul Fagan

2021-12-30 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1–17


‘Expert diagnosis has averted still another tragedy’: Misreading and the Paranoia of Expertise in The Third Policeman

‘Expert diagnosis has averted still another tragedy’: Misreading and the Paranoia of Expertise in The Third Policeman

Paul Fagan

2015-05-29 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 12-41


Founders’ Note: The Parish Review

Founders’ Note: The Parish Review

Ruben Borg and Paul Fagan

2012-06-29 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2012 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1-7