Maebh Long is an Irish academic with expertise on Irish literature - particularly the modernist novelist and playwright Flann O'Brien[1] - Pacific literature[2] and the medical humanities.[3] She is currently Senior Lecturer (above the bar) in the English Programme in the School of Arts at The University of Waikato in New Zealand,[4] having been a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of School at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Fiji.[5]