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Paul Fagan

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

Affiliation:
Department of English, LMU Munich

Country:
Germany

Biography


Dr Paul Fagan is a Research Fellow at LMU Munich and the PI of the Irish Research Council project Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing, 1860s–1950s. He is a co-founder of the International Flann O’Brien Society and the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies, and the co-editor of 9 books and special issues, including Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing (Humanities, 2025), Finnegans Wake: Human and Nonhuman Histories (Edinburgh UP, 2024), Flann O'Brien and the Nonhuman: Environments, Animals, Machines (Cork UP, 2024), Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities (Bloomsbury, 2021), and Stage Irish: Performance, Identity, Cultural Circulation (Irish Studies in Europe, 2021). He is currently finalising a monograph on Irish Literary Hoaxes and a podcast seried on 'Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing'.



Publications


‘Cultural Affairs’: A Newly Discovered Myles na Gopaleen Article

‘Cultural Affairs’: A Newly Discovered Myles na Gopaleen Article

Paul Fagan

2025-06-18 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2024 • Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies • 1–23


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