Keith Hopper teaches Literature and Film Studies at Oxford University s Department for Continuing Education, and is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Irish Studies at St Mary s University, Twickenham. He is the author of Flann O Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist (revised edition 2009), general editor of the twelve-volume Ireland into Film series (2001 7), and co-editor (with Neil Murphy and Ond ej Pilny) of a special Neglected Irish Fiction issue of Litteraria Pragensia (2013). He is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and is currently completing a