LIAM HARTE teaches Irish and Modern Literature at the University of Manchester, UK. He has published widely on contemporary Irish fiction and was Armstrong Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto in 2008. His recent books include Modern Irish Autobiography: Self, Nation and Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and Ireland Beyond Boundaries: Mapping Irish Studies in the Twenty-First Century (2007, co-edited with Yvonne Whelan).