Loic Wright is a PhD candidate in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin (UCD). He holds a joint honours bachelor’s degree in English and Spanish and a Master’s degree in Anglo-Irish Literature and Culture from UCD. His PhD research interrogates how concepts of masculinity and manhood were measured and promoted in mid-twentieth century Ireland through the lens of Irish fiction and wider culture between 1931 and 1965. Loic has published on Irish masculinities and works at the James Joyce Cultural Centre in Dublin where he helps co-ordinate cultural events and workshops, and conducts literary tours of Joyce’s Dublin and the Irish literary tradition.