Neil Murphy
Neil Murphy is Associate Professor with the Division of English at NTU, Singapore, and has previously taught at the University of Ulster and the American University of Beirut. He studied at University College Galway (BA & MA), and University College Dublin (PhD). He is the author of Irish Fiction and Postmodern Doubt (2004) and has co-edited two collections of scholarly essays, British-Asian Fiction: Framing the Contemporary (2008), and Literature and Ethics (2008). He has also edited a collection of essays entitled Aidan Higgins: The Fragility of Form (2010), and is the editor of the revised scholarly edition of Higgins' novel, Balcony of Europe (2010). He has also co-edited several special journal issues, including the Flann O'Brien special centenary issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction (2011), and an issue of SARE (Southeast Asian Review of English) (2012). In addition, he has published numerous articles and book chapters on Irish literature, contemporary fiction, postmodernism, and theories of reading and is currently writing a book on contemporary fiction.