Derek Hand is a professor of Irish writing and culture at Dublin City University. The Liffey Press published his book John Banville: Exploring Fictions in 2002. He edited a special edition of the Irish University Review on John Banville in 2006. His A History of the Irish novel was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. He is also the co-editor of a collection of essays on John McGahern entitled Essays on John McGahern: Assessing a Literary Legacy, published by Cork University Press in 2019. His co-edited volume, Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel for Syracuse University Press, will be published in 2026.