John Kenny is a graduate of the National University of Ireland (BA 1992, Ph.D. 2002). His Doctoral thesis was titled ’Connoisseur of Silences: John Banville and the Belief in Autonomy’ (National University of Ireland, Galway, Thesis 4746), and he is currently completing two books on Banville for Irish Academic Press. He was awarded a Post Doctoral Fellowship (2004-6) by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (during which time he was based at the Centre for the Study of Human Settlement & Historical Change at NUIG), and he is currently developing work on the history and practice of literary journalism and reviewing begun under that auspice. He is a regular reviewer of new writing for The Irish Times. Relevant teaching interests include modern world fiction, contemporary Irish fiction, literary theory, and the history of criticism with special relation to literary journalism and book-reviewing.

John Banville. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009.

The John McGahern Yearbook. (Editor.) 4 vols. NUI Galway, 2008-11.

‘One Owner Only.’ The Stinging Fly, issue 16, volume two (Summer 2010): 85-91.

‘William Trevor: Uncertain Grounds for Assured Art.’ A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story, ed. Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. 480-87.

Practice-based work in Creative Writing; Contemporary Irish and World Fiction; the works of John Banville, John McGahern and Patrick McCabe; Literary Journalism and reviewing. Current projects: a collection of short stories and a novel, and individual critical works on Banville, McGahern and McCabe.