Brian Cliff
Brian Cliff is a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin, where he was a lecturer and assistant professor from 2007 to 2019. His publications include the Edgar Award–nominated Guilt Rules All: Irish Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction, coedited with Elizabeth Mannion; Irish Crime Fiction; Synge and Edwardian Ireland, coedited with Nicholas Grene; and a reprint of Emma Donoghue’s Hood, coedited with Emilie Pine. His most recent article, “At Home in Irish Crime Fiction,” appeared in Clues: A Journal of Detection 39.1 (2021), a special issue devoted to domestic noir. He co-organized “Irish Crime Fiction: A Festival” in November 2013, and is currently working on a monograph about community and contemporary Irish writing.