Dr. Paul Fagan, M.A.
Winter term 2026
120011 VO Approaching Cultural Studies
123422 SE Literary & Cultural Studies Seminar (BA) - Feminist Utopias
124010 VO Introduction to Cultural Theories
124182 VK BEd 08b.3: VK Cultural Studies and Language Education - Self-Partnered: Representations of Singleness in Literature and Media
128422 SE Literary & Cultural Studies Seminar (MA) - Feminist Utopias
Summer term 2026
124010 VO Introduction to Cultural Theories
124182 VK BEd 08b.3: VK Cultural Studies and Language Education - Unmarried Sisters: Single Women in Literature and Media
Winter term 2025
124010 VO Introduction to Cultural Theories
124182 VK BEd 08b.3: VK Cultural Studies and Language Education - Literary and Media Hoaxes: Histories, Politics and Poetics of the Fake
124184 VK BEd 08b.3: VK Cultural Studies and Language Education - Unmarried Sisters: Celibate Politics, Sexualities, and Cultures in the History of the Women's Movement
128110 VO Popular and Media Cultures VO / Cultural Studies - MA M01 - Nonhuman Bodies in Popular Culture: Environments, Animals, Machines
Fagan, P. (2026). 'A lacuna in the palimpsest’: Flann O’Brien’s Nonhuman Skin. In A. Fogarty, E. Mihálycsa, & S. E. Hamilton (Eds.), Flann O’Brien: Palimpsests, Translations and Intertexts (pp. 125-143). Cork University Press.
Fagan, P. (Ed.) (2026). Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing. (2 ed.) Humanities. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/YTRA2XWVNS
Fagan, P. (2026). ‘The Living Spit of Dead Waters’: The Vibrant Matter of Finnegans Wake II.2. In S. Chattopadhyay, Y. Greenblatt, & V. Mahaffey (Eds.), Nightreadings: Essays on Finnegans Wake II.2 (Vol. 35, pp. 128-149). Brill.
Fagan, P. (2026). Unveiling the Sky: Ecofeminist Revelations in Virginia Woolf’s "A Room of One’s Own". In W. Funk, & I. Huber (Eds.), Non-Human Perspectives (Vol. 40, pp. 111-133). Narr Francke Attempto.
Fagan, P. (2025). H. L. Morrow and Brian O’Nolan on Radio Éireann. The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies, 9(1), 1-30. https://parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/24888/
Fagan, P. (2025). ‘Cultural Affairs’: A Newly Discovered Myles na Gopaleen Article. The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies, 8(2), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.16995/pr.23756
Fagan, P., Scheible, E. (Ed.), & Devine, B. (Ed.) (2025). Teaching the Wakean Sentence. In B. Devine, & E. Scheible (Eds.), Teaching James Joyce in the 21st Century (pp. 148-160). University Press of Florida.
Fagan, P., & Barlow, R. (2024). Finnegans Wake: Untangling its histories of humans, the animal world and the environment. The Irish Times. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2024/12/16/finnegans-wake-untangling-its-histories-of-humans-the-animal-world-and-the-environment/
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. (2024). Flann O'Brien's Vibrant Atmospheres. The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/pr.16349
Fagan, P. (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. (2023). Vivisections, Vaccinations, Revelations: Ecofeminist Satire and Biopolitical Dystopia in Frances Power Cobbe’s The Age of Science. In R. McKay, & S. McHugh (Eds.), Animal Satire (pp. 209-226). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24872-6_13
Fagan, P. (2022). Voices Off: Brian O’Nolan, Posthumanism and Cinematic Disembodiment. In P. Fagan, & D. Fuchs (Eds.), Flann O'Brien: Acting Out (pp. 213-230). 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
Celibacy, Care, and Queer Kinship: From Frances Power Cobbe to Kate O'Brien
Fagan, P. (Speaker)
20 Nov 2025
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Apocalyptic Time in Brian O’Nolan and Aldous Huxley
Fagan, P. (Speaker)
7 Feb 2025
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
'this our funnaminal world': Finnegans Wake, the Nonhuman and Us
Fagan, P. (Speaker)
30 Jan 2025 → 31 Jan 2025
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Flann O'Brien and Irish Modernism
Fagan, P. (Speaker)
27 Nov 2024
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Celibate Politics, Aesthetics, and Sexualities in Irish Women’s Writing
Fagan, P. (Speaker)
28 Sept 2024
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
James Joyce and the Feminist Celibacy Movement
Fagan, P. (Speaker)
11 Sept 2024
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
‘just good friends like a big brother and sister without all that other’: Theosophical Purity and Feminist Celibacy in Ulysses
Fagan, P. (Speaker)
18 Jun 2024
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
In the Clouds: Flann O’Brien’s Vibrant Atmospheres
Fagan, P. (Speaker)
28 Jun 2023
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Irish and Scottish Literature in Austria
Fagan, P. (Speaker)
3 Dec 2016
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Department of English and American Studies
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