Tudor Balinisteanu obtained his PhD from the University of Glasgow, UK, and is currently a Senior Research Fellow in English Literature at University of Suceava, Romania. He is the author of Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats: Subjective Identity and Anarcho-Syndicalist Traditions (Palgrave, 2013), and Narrative, Social Myth, and Reality in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Women's Writing: Kennedy, Lochhead, Bourke, Ní Dhuibhne, and Carr (2009). He has also published in a number of UK, Irish, Canadian, and US journals.