Héctor Muiños is a writer and academic whose short fiction has been published in national and international literary magazines such as Stanchion, Púca Magazine, Tint Journal and the inaugural issue of HOWL Magazine among others.
He received a 4-year doctoral research scholarship from Dublin City University's School of English in 2020, and in 2024 he finished his PhD in Creative Writing with a thesis titled “My Name Is John Tyndall (novel) and 'So now get up'. The construction of fictional characters from historical evidence in Hilary Mantel's Cromwell trilogy.”
He is currently the Fellow Writer in Residence at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg - Institute for Advanced Study under their Fiction Meets Science programme, where he is carrying out additional research and editorial work for My Name is John Tyndall and analysing how scientists from the past are portrayed in works of historical fiction from a cognitive narratology perspective.
Selected Publications
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