Dr John Greaney lectures and tutors in University College Dublin and Maynooth University. His research interests include modernist studies, Irish studies, critical theory and continental philosophy. His work has been featured in Irish Studies Reviewand Textual Practice,and he is co-editing Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures Possibilities with Tamara Radak and Paul Fagan. As an NUI-Fulbright postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania,he will undertake research for his monograph “The Distance of Irish Modernism” which investigates the paradox through which the Irish modernist novel becomes both a container for national history and a mode of world literature.