Luke Gibbons is Professor of English and Concurrent Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre. The Director of Graduate Studies for the Keough-Naughton Institute, his interests range from film and literature to the visual arts, questions of aesthetics, politics and cultural history, and contemporary debates on post-colonialism. His most recent book is Gaelic Gothic: Race, Colonialism and Irish Culture (2004), and his Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime 1750-1850 was published in 2003.His other books include The Quiet Man (2002), Transformations in Irish Culture (1996), and (with Kevin Rockett and John Hill) Cinema in Ireland (1988), the first academic study of Irish cinema. He is currently preparing books for publication on James Joyce, modernism and memory; Irishness and race; and Romanticism and the Enlightenment in Ireland. One of Ireland’s most highly regarded public intellectuals, he was a contributing editor to The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (1991: General Editor, Seamus Deane) and he has also co-edited several important interventions in cultural and political debates, most recently (with Peadar Kirby and Michael Cronin) Reinventing Ireland: Culture, Society and the Global Economy (2002) and (with Dudley Andrew) The Theatre of Irish Cinema (2002). A former member of the Board of Trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation and a consulting editor of Interventions: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Gibbons has been an important figure in mapping Irish Studies onto international critical debates.