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Karl Whitney lives in Dublin, Ireland. He works as a journalist and teacher. He is a PhD candidate in the School of History and Archives, University College Dublin. His research is centred on concepts of everyday life and urban space in post-war France. In 2007-8, he held a Postgraduate Scholarship from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and from 2005-7 he held a Doctoral Scholarship from the UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland. He holds a BA in History and English from UCD and an MA in Modernism from University of East Anglia. He is also a fully qualified music manager.

Like Flann O'Brien, he has worked for the Irish civil service. As a journalist, he contributes to publications such as The Guardian, The Irish Times and The Belfast Telegraph. For a while he specialized in humorous essays, but now rarely laughs. He can be contacted by email at karl (at) karlwhitney (dot) com. He is an associate member of the London Institute of 'Pataphysics. He is a Co-Editor at 3:AM Magazine.