Maria Beville Editor & Author

Maria Beville is a researcher, lecturer, and writer with the Centre for Studies in Otherness. Her research interests include Gothic studies, Irish Studies, and cultural theory. Working mostly with contemporary fiction and film, her recent research has focused on the supernatural city in literature. Her books include The Unnameable Monster in Literature and Film (2013), The Gothic and the Everyday (co-edited 2014) and Gothic-postmodernism (2009). She is editor of the journal Otherness: Essays and Studies.

Deirdre Flynn is a lecturer in English Literature and Drama at Mary Immaculate College Limerick, and in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin. She was recently awarded a Moore Institute Visiting Scholar Fellowship for her work on the representation of female middle age in Post-Celtic Tiger Fiction. She lectures at Undergraduate and Postgraduate level in English Literature, and Drama and Theatre Studies. Her recent co-edited collection Representations of Loss in Irish Literature was published with Palgrave in June 2018.