Neil Murphy is Professor of English at NTU, Singapore. His primary research interests include contemporary Irish and world fiction, as well as the relationship between the visual arts and literature. He is the editor of Aidan Higgins: The Fragility of Form (Dalkey Archive Press, 2010). He has 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 (Dalkey Archive Press, 2013). He has also co-edited (with Keith Hopper) a four-book series related to the work of Dermot Healy, including a scholarly edition of Fighting with Shadows (2015), as well as Dermot Healy: The Collected Short Stories (2015), Dermot Healy: The Collected Plays (2016), and Writing the Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy (2016). He recently co-edited, with W. Michelle Wang and Daniel Jernigan, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Death (2020) and his monograph, John Banville (2018), was published by Bucknell UP. He is currently working on a new work on the significance of the visual arts in contemporary fiction.
