Patrick Bixby is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University and author of Samuel Beckett and the Postcolonial Novel (Cambridge, 2009), as well as co-editor, with Gregory Castle, of Standish O'Grady's Cuculain: A Critical Edition (2016). His essays have appeared in journals including Modernism/Modernity, Modernist Cultures, Irish Studies Review, and the Journal of Beckett Studies, in addition to collections such as A History of the Modernist Novel, Beckett in Context, Beckett and Ireland, and A New and Complex Sensation.