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Tobias W Harris

Roles:
Author, Reviewer

Affiliation:

    • Birkbeck College, University of London
    • United Kingdom

Biography


Tobias W. Harris is an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London and Research Fellow at the Aldous Huxley Centre in Zürich. His research interests include modernism, critical theory and technology. Tobias is the winner of the ‘Best Essay-Length Study on a Brian O’Nolan Theme (2015–16)’ prize for an essay on Flann O’Brien and Karl Kraus and is the author of Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45. Tobias hosts the Radio Myles podcast and he has recently launched a new podcast, Themes and Variations, dedicated to popularising the ideas of Huxley and produced in collaboration with the Zürich Centre.



Publications


Print as Pharmakon in the Journalism of Aldous Huxley and Brian O'Nolan

Print as Pharmakon in the Journalism of Aldous Huxley and Brian O'Nolan

  • Tobias W Harris

Volume 10 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1–24


Flann O’Brien and the Irish ‘Radio-Mind,’ 1926-1976

Flann O’Brien and the Irish ‘Radio-Mind,’ 1926-1976

  • Tobias W Harris
  • Joseph LaBine

Volume 9 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1–20


Drink-Music: The ‘ól’ in Brian Ua Nualláin’s ‘!CEÓL!’ (1932)

Drink-Music: The ‘ól’ in Brian Ua Nualláin’s ‘!CEÓL!’ (1932)

  • Joseph LaBine
  • Tobias W Harris

Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies


Review of Smyllie’s Ireland: Protestants, Independence, and the Man Who Ran the Irish Times (2019), by Caleb Wood Richardson

Review of Smyllie’s Ireland: Protestants, Independence, and the Man Who Ran the Irish Times (2019), by Caleb Wood Richardson

  • Tobias W Harris

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies


John Garvin and Brian O’Nolan in Civil Service: Bureaucratic, Joycean Modernism

John Garvin and Brian O’Nolan in Civil Service: Bureaucratic, Joycean Modernism

  • Joseph LaBine
  • Tobias W Harris

Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies


'Something entirely new': A Critical History of An Béal Bocht, 1941–75

'Something entirely new': A Critical History of An Béal Bocht, 1941–75

  • Tobias Harris

Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1–18


Chronitis: Myles na gCopaleen à la recherche du temps perdu

Chronitis: Myles na gCopaleen à la recherche du temps perdu

  • Tobias Harris

Volume 4 • Issue 2 • 2020 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1–6


Report: #Flann50 in London: Re-Reading Some Scenes from an Anti-Novel

Report: #Flann50 in London: Re-Reading Some Scenes from an Anti-Novel

  • Tobias Harris

Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2018 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 96-99


Translation: ‘Pisa Bec Oc Parnabus Extractum O Bhark I bPragrais le Briain O Nuallain’ (1938)

Translation: ‘Pisa Bec Oc Parnabus Extractum O Bhark I bPragrais le Briain O Nuallain’ (1938)

  • Tobias Harris
  • John Wyse Jackson
  • Thomas O’Donnell

Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2018 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 71–74


The Catastrophe of Cliché: Karl Kraus, Cruiskeen Lawn, and the Culture Industry

The Catastrophe of Cliché: Karl Kraus, Cruiskeen Lawn, and the Culture Industry

  • Tobias Harris

Volume 3 • Issue 2 • 2016 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 7-20