Contributors
- Contributors
suzanne hobson is a senior lecturer in twentieth-century literature in the English department at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910–60 (2011) and coeditor with Rachel Potter of The Salt Companion to Mina Loy (2010). She is chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies in 2017–18 and has been a member of the executive committee since 2013. She is currently completing a project funded by the Leverhulme Trust titled Unbelief: Interwar Cultures of Doubt.
michael lackey is Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris. He is the author and editor of eight books, including Truthful Fictions: Conversations with American Biographical Novelists, The American Biographical Novel, and The Modernist God State: A Literary Study of the Nazis’ Christian Reich. He is also the editor of Biographical Fiction: A Reader. In 2018 Bloomsbury will publish his book Conversations with Biographical Novelists, which contains interviews with such luminaries as Colm Tóibín, Colum McCann, Emma Donoghue, Olga Tokarczuk, Rosa Montero, Laurent Binet, and many others. He is currently working on a book titled The Irish Biographical Novel.
bethany layne is senior lecturer in English literature at De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom. Her work on Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Plath in biographical fiction has appeared [End Page 198] in the Henry James Review, Woolf Studies Annual, and Adaptation. Her monograph Henry James in Contemporary Fiction is under contract with Palgrave Macmillan. While a teaching fellow at the University of Reading in 2017, she pioneered the first specialist biofiction module in the United Kingdom and organized a related conference, “Post-modernist Biofictions.” She is currently editing a volume of essays emerging from the conference entitled Biofiction in Context.
liam mac mathÚna is professor emeritus of Irish at University College Dublin. His publications include Béarla sa Ghaeilge (2007), which studies code-mixing in Irish between 1600 and 1900; a new edition of Peadar Ua Laoghaire’s ground-breaking novel Séadna (1987, 2011); and Saothrú na Gaeilge Scríofa i Suímh Uirbeacha na hÉireann, 1700–1850 (coedited with Regina Uí Chollatáin, 2016). He is editor of Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies, published by the National University of Ireland. He is currently researching the life and work of Douglas Hyde together with Máire Nic an Bhaird.
timothy g. mcmahon is associate professor of history at Marquette University and president of the American Conference for Irish Studies. He is the author of Grand Opportunity: The Gaelic Revival and Irish Society, 1893–1910 (2008) and editor of Pádraig Ó Fathaigh’s War of Independence: Recollections of a Galway Gaelic Leaguer (2000) and (with Michael de Nie and Paul Townend) of Ireland in an Imperial World: Citizenship, Opportunism, and Subversion (2017). He was the Rev. William Neenan, S. J., Visiting Fellow at Boston College-Ireland in 2011 and received a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society in 2017.
sabina murray is the author of six works of fiction, including the recent novel Valiant Gentlemen, selected as a 2017 Notable Book by both the New York Times and the Washington Post, and the short-story collection The Caprices, which won the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Simon F. Guggenheim Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, among others. She teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. [End Page 199]
mÁire nic an bhaird is a lecturer in Irish language and literature at Maynooth University. Her research area for her Ph.D. was The Censorship Issue, the Editing Process, and the Irish Language Readers of 1922–1972. Her main current area of research is the life and work of Douglas Hyde. She has produced several publications relating to her research and has also presented on national and international television and radio programs. She is a partner in the European Commission-funded Horizon 2020 project AgroCycle, which focuses on translating the scientific concepts of the “circular economy” into child-centered language suitable for the primary-school curriculum.
james g. patterson is professor of...
