DANIEL KEITH JERNIGAN is assistant Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the editor of Drama and the Postmodern: Assessing the Limits of Metatheatre, as well as a collection of Aidan Higgins’s radio plays, Texts for the Air. His most recent book is the monograph Tom Stoppard: Bucking the Postmodern.
JACK FENNELL is a researcher at the University of Limerick. His research interests are Irish literature, science fiction and cultural studies. He has published essays on Irish dystopian literature, the aesthetics of comic-book justice, and the politics of monsters and monstrous communities, as well as contributing informal articles to The James Joyce Literary Supplement and the Flann O’Brien ejournal, The Parish Review. His doctoral thesis is on the subject of Irish science fiction, from the 1850s to the present day.
DAVID O’KANE received a Diplom Degree (with distinction) in 2009 and a Meisterschüler Degree in 2012 from the Hochschule für Grafik Buchkunst in Leipzig. He also holds a 1st class Joint-Honours Degree in Fine Art and History of Art from NCAD. He was awarded the Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship and Residency at the British School at Rome in 2009. In 2008, he received an e v+ a open award from Hou Hanru. He is currently a resident artist at the Stiftung Starke in Berlin.
FLANN O’BRIEN, whose real name was Brian O’Nolan, also wrote under the pen name of Myles na Gopaleen. He was born in 1911 in County Tyrone. A resident of Dublin, he graduated from University College after a brilliant career as a student (editing a magazine called Blather) and joined the Civil Service, in which he eventually attained a senior position. He wrote throughout his life, which ended in Dublin on April 1, 1966. His novels include At Swim-Two-Birds, The Dalkey Archive, The Third Policeman, The Hard Life, and The Poor Mouth, all available from Dalkey Archive Press. Also available are three volumes of his newspaper columns: The Best of Myles, Further Cuttings from Cruiskeen Lawn, and At War.