Derek Hand (Dublin City University)

Professor Derek Hand is the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Dublin City University. The Liffey Press published his book John Banville: Exploring Fictions in 2002. He edited a special edition of the Irish University Review on John Banville in 2006. His A History of the Irish Novel: 1665 to the present was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. He is also the co-editor of a collection of essays on John McGahern entitled, Essays on John McGahern: Assessing a Literary Legacy published by Cork University Press in 2019. He is currently working on a book for the Routledge Press, The Celtic Tiger Novel: Reading Literature, Culture and Society.