Dr. Paul Fagan, M.A.
Paul Fagan
Summer term 2025
Winter term 2024
123422 SE Literary & Cultural Studies Seminar / BA Paper / MA British/Irish/New English - Queer Kinship in Modernist Women's Writing
124220 SE Cultural and Media Studies Seminar - Apocalypse Narratives: Fantasies of Extinction Across Media

Barlow, R., & Fagan, P. (2024). Introduction – Finnegans Wake: Joyce’s ‘cyclewheeling history’ of ‘our funnaminal world’. In R. Barlow, & P. Fagan (Eds.), Finnegans Wake - Human and Nonhuman Histories (pp. 1-20). Edinburgh University Press.

Fagan, P. (2024). ‘piously forged palimpsests’: Nonhuman Skins in Finnegans Wake. In Finnegans Wake - Human and Nonhuman Histories (pp. 99-115). Edinburgh University Press.

Fagan, P., & Barlow, R. (Eds.) (2024). Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories. Edinburgh University Press.

Fagan, P., Ebury, K., & Greaney, J. (Eds.) (2024). Flann O'Brien and the Nonhuman: Environments, Animals, Machines. Cork University Press.

Witen, M., & Fagan, P. (2024). Live Flowers and Fabulous Monsters: Nonhuman Life and Extinction in Through the Looking-Glass. In F. E. Kohlt, & J. Houyaux (Eds.), Through the Looking-Glass: A Companion (pp. 35–43). Peter Lang.


Fagan, P., Ebury, K. (Ed.), English, B. (Ed.), & Fogarty, M. (Ed.) (2023). An Béal Bocht and the Ethics of the Modernist Laughing Apocalypse. In K. Ebury, B. English, & M. Fogarty (Eds.), Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism (pp. 31–49). Clemson University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.2862490.6

Fagan, P. (2023). The Taxidermic Imaginary in Modernist Literature. In A. Goody, & S. McCracken (Eds.), Beastly Modernisms: The Figure of the Animal in Modernist Literature and Culture (pp. 107–22). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474498043-009


Fagan, P., & Fuchs, D. (Eds.) (2022). Flann O'Brien: Acting Out. Cork University Press.

Fagan, P. (2022). "Voices Off: Brian O’Nolan, Posthumanism and Cinematic Disembodiment". In P. Fagan, & D. Fuchs (Eds.), Flann O'Brien: Acting Out Cork University Press.

Fagan, P. (2022). Biofiction, Compulsory Sexuality, and Celibate Modernism in Colm Tóibín’s The Master and David Lodge’s Author, Author. In J. Novak, & C. Ní Dhúill (Eds.), Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction (pp. 213-246). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09019-6_8

Fagan, P. (2022). "Introduction". In P. Fagan (Ed.), Flann O'Brien: Acting Out Cork University Press.



Radak, T., Fagan, P., & Greaney, J. (2021). Contested canons: Testing the limits of Irish modernism. In P. Fagan, J. Greaney, & T. Radak (Eds.), Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities (pp. 9-13). Bloomsbury Academic.

Radak, T., Fagan, P., & Greaney, J. (2021). Corporeal texts, discursive bodies: Biopolitical Irish modernisms. In P. Fagan, J. Greaney, & T. Radak (Eds.), Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities (pp. 81-86). Bloomsbury Academic.

Radak, T., Fagan, P., & Greaney, J. (2021). Introduction: Irish Modernisms in the Plural. In P. Fagan, J. Greaney, & T. Radak (Eds.), Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities (pp. 1-7). Bloomsbury Academic.

Radak, T., Fagan, P., & Greaney, J. (Eds.) (2021). Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities. Bloomsbury Academic.

Apocalyptic Time in Brian O’Nolan and Aldous Huxley

Paul Fagan (Speaker)

7 Feb 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


'this our funnaminal world': Finnegans Wake, the Nonhuman and Us

Paul Fagan (Speaker)

30 Jan 202531 Jan 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Flann O'Brien and Irish Modernism

Paul Fagan (Speaker)

27 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Celibate Politics, Aesthetics, and Sexualities in Irish Women’s Writing

Paul Fagan (Speaker)

28 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


James Joyce and the Feminist Celibacy Movement

Paul Fagan (Speaker)

11 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


‘just good friends like a big brother and sister without all that other’: Theosophical Purity and Feminist Celibacy in Ulysses

Paul Fagan (Speaker)

18 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


In the Clouds: Flann O’Brien’s Vibrant Atmospheres

Paul Fagan (Speaker)

28 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Irish and Scottish Literature in Austria

Paul Fagan (Speaker)

3 Dec 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Department of English and American Studies

Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8 (Campus)
1090 Wien

paul.fagan@univie.ac.at