Neil Murphy teaches contemporary literature at NTU, Singapore. He is the author of Irish Fiction and Postmodern Doubt (2004) and editor of Aidan Higgins: The Fragility of Form (2010) and of the revised edition of Higgins s Balcony of Europe (2010). He 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 published numerous articles and book chapters on contemporary fiction, Irish writing, and theories of reading, and is currently completing a book on John Banville.