Jack Fennell is a writer and researcher who teaches at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He is the editor of two fiction anthologies, A Brilliant Void (2018) and It Rose Up (2021), collecting lesser-known Irish science fiction and fantasy stories respectively.
He has written two academic studies, Irish Science Fiction (2014) and Rough Beasts: Monstrosity in Irish Literature, 1800-2010 (2019), as well as twelve book chapters covering topics ranging from comic-book vampires to the work of Flann O'Brien, Dermot Healy, and the representation of transgender characters in the Star Trek franchise. His own fiction has appeared in Silver Apples Magazine, Archive of the Odd, and various anthologies. He also contributed translations to The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien (2013), and was the winner of the 2022 European Science Fiction Society award for Best Translator.
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–presentLecturer in English, School of English, Irish and Communication, University of Limerick
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