Dr Paul Fagan is an IRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University. He is co-founder of the International Flann O’Brien Society and general editor of the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies, which is published by the Open Library of Humanities.
Fagan co-edited a series of volumes on Irish Modernist Flann O'Brien with Cork University Press: "Flann O’Brien: Contesting Legacies" (listed in The Irish Times's top-10 non-fiction books of 2014) with Ruben Borg and Werner Huber, "Flann O’Brien: Problems with Authority" (2017) with Borg and John McCourt, "Flann O’Brien: Gallows Humour" (2020) with Borg, and "Flann O'Brien: Acting Out" with Dieter Fuchs. He is also the co-editor of the volumes "Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities" with John Greaney and Tamara Radak, and "Stage Irish: Performance, Identity, Cultural Circulation" (with Fuchs and Radak).
Fagan has published articles and reviews in the James Joyce Quarterley, The Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies, Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, Irish Studies in Europe, Joyce Studies in Europe, Joyce Studies in Italy, Wissenschaft und Kunst, and other journals, largely focused on modernist and contemporary authors (James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, Joanna Walsh) and themes (the nonhuman turn, animal studies, celibacy, temporality, narcissism, metamorphosis, misreading, paranoia, transmedialization). He has published chapters in book collections dedicated to Samuel Beckett (Palgrave), Brendan Behan (Cork UP), Dermot Healy (Dalkey Archive Press) Lewis Carroll (Bloomsbury), Bob Dylan (Manchester UP), James Joyce and Shakespeare (Syracuse UP).
Fagan recently appeared on the London School of Economics' Philosophy Bookclub Podcast, where he discussed the Philosophy of Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman (https://youtu.be/5prEeDxg8So).
