Booze as a Muse: Literary and Cultural Studies of Drink

Dieter Fuchs is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the Department of English and American Studies of the University of Vienna and the Head of the Vienna Centre for Irish Studies. His main research areas include Shakespeare and early modern studies; James Joyce and high modernism; Irish studies; the campus novel.
Wojciech Klepuszewski is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland. His research interests include poetry, academic fiction and, most recently, alcohol(ism) in literature.
Matthew Leroy is a lecturer and doctoral candidate at the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna. His fields of research are migration, and cultural studies with a particular interest in Australian studies. He is also the president of the Australian Academic Circle – a Vienna-based network of academics with connections to Australia.