Dr John Coyle is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow, where he specialises in comparative literature and the twentieth-century novel. His main research interests lie in the field of modernist and postmodernist literature from an international perspective. He has published articles on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alain-Fournier, Proust and Joyce, and has edited two introductory studies on Joyce. He is currently writing on the relations between literary modernism and advertising, and on recent American fiction.