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Prof Neil Murphy
Toh Puan Mahani Idris Daim (TPMID) Chair Professor
Professor, School of Humanities
Professor, School of Art, Design and Media (Courtesy Appointment)
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Neil Murphy is a Professor 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 editor of Aidan Higgins: The Fragility of Form (2010). He has co-edited (with Keith Hopper) a special Flann O’Brien centenary issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction (2011) and The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien (2013). He has also co-edited (with Keith Hopper) a four book series related to the work of Dermot Healy, including a scholarly edition of Fighting with Shadows (2015), as well as Dermot Healy: The Collected Short Stories (2015), Dermot Healy: The Collected Plays (2016), and Writing the Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy (2016). His monograph, John Banville (2018) was published by Bucknell University Press, and he is a co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Death and Literature (2021). More recently, he has co-edited the Routledge Companion to Literature and Art (2023).
Neil Murphy's primary research interests include the following:
20th/21st Century Irish literature
Aesthetics and literature
Intermediality Studies
Contemporary fiction
Flann O'Brien
John Banville
Aidan Higgins.
20th/21st Century Irish literature
Aesthetics and literature
Intermediality Studies
Contemporary fiction
Flann O'Brien
John Banville
Aidan Higgins.
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