Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith is a critic and associate professor in the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore at University College Dublin. In addition to numerous publications on literature in the Irish language his writing on contemporary art includes essays on the work of Lutz Bacher, Cecily Brown, Marlene Dumas, Douglas Gordon and Steve McQueen. A contributor to Afterall, Artforum, Frieze and Mousse, he has also curated exhibitions in Dublin, London, Amsterdam and New York and was a juror for the 2005 Turner Prize.