Wei H. Kao received his doctorate on postcolonial studies from University of Kent in 2004, and is currently professor of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University. His articles on Irish writers have appeared in journals, including Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, Journal of Beckett Studies, Journal of Irish Studies, English Studies in Africa, Essays on Modern Irish Literature (2007), Iris Murdoch and Moral Imaginations (2010), Irish Women at War (2010), among others. His monograph, The Formation of an Irish Literary Canon in the mid- twentieth Century (2007) was published by Ibidem Press. He is working on a series of articles on the representation of migration and globalization in contemporary Irish dramas.