She is currently writing a monograph on adolescence and witchcraft in American popular culture. She is also the co-editor (with Steve Gronert Ellerhoff) of Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction: Ray Bradbury's Elliott Family (Routledge, 2020).
She has published articles on paranoia, literature, and Cold-War popular culture in The Boolean, Americana, and Transverse, and contributed a book chapter on transnational paranoia to the recently published book Atlantic Crossings: Archaeology, Literature, and Spatial Culture. She has also published articles on horror and science fiction in The New Ray Bradbury Review and Supernatural Studies.
She is a host on the New Books in Literary Studies podcast and a regular contributor to the popular online magazine Diabolique.
Biography
Miranda Corcoran is a lecturer in twenty-first-century literature at University College Cork. Her research interests include Cold-War literature, genre fiction, popular fiction, sci-fi, horror and the gothic.She is currently writing a monograph on adolescence and witchcraft in American popular culture. She is also the co-editor (with Steve Gronert Ellerhoff) of Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction: Ray Bradbury's Elliott Family (Routledge, 2020).
She has published articles on paranoia, literature, and Cold-War popular culture in The Boolean, Americana, and Transverse, and contributed a book chapter on transnational paranoia to the recently published book Atlantic Crossings: Archaeology, Literature, and Spatial Culture. She has also published articles on horror and science fiction in The New Ray Bradbury Review and Supernatural Studies.
She is a host on the New Books in Literary Studies podcast and a regular contributor to the popular online magazine Diabolique.
Publications
Other Journals
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(2019) | 'Gotta Light?: Intersections of Science and the Supernatural in Twin Peaks' Miranda Corcoran (2019) 'Gotta Light?: Intersections of Science and the Supernatural in Twin Peaks' . [Details] | |
(2019) | '“I’ll be in every living thing in the world tonight”: Adolescent Femininity and the Gothic Uncanny in Bradbury’s “The April Witch”' Miranda Corcoran (2019) '“I’ll be in every living thing in the world tonight”: Adolescent Femininity and the Gothic Uncanny in Bradbury’s “The April Witch”' . [Details] |
Edited Books
Year | Publication | |
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(2020) | Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction: Ray Bradbury’s Elliott Family Miranda Corcoran & Steve Gronert Ellerhoff (Ed.). (2020) Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction: Ray Bradbury’s Elliott Family London: Routledge. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
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(2020) | 'Bleeding Panels, Leaking Forms: Reading the Abject in Emily Carroll's Through the Woods (2014)' Corcoran, M (2020) 'Bleeding Panels, Leaking Forms: Reading the Abject in Emily Carroll's Through the Woods (2014)'. Comics Grid-Journal Of Comics Scholarship, 10 [DOI] [Details] | |
(2015) | '“A is for Atom’: Utopian Discourses in Atomic Age Educational Films”. Americana: The E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary' Miranda Corcoran (2015) '“A is for Atom’: Utopian Discourses in Atomic Age Educational Films”. Americana: The E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary'. [Details] |
Book Chapters
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(2017) | '“Negative Space and Narrative Elision in Twentieth Century Soviet and American Fiction: Towards a Transnational Aesthetic of Paranoid Representation.”' Miranda Corcoran (2017) '“Negative Space and Narrative Elision in Twentieth Century Soviet and American Fiction: Towards a Transnational Aesthetic of Paranoid Representation.”' In: Mark Leone and Lee M. Jenkins (eds). Atlantic Crossings: Archaeology, Literature, and Spatial Culture. Leiden: Brill. [Details] |
Electronic Article
Year | Publication | |
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(2019) | A Short History of Teenage Witches. Miranda Corcoran (2019) A Short History of Teenage Witches. Electronic Article [Details] | |
(2017) | Scream! Just where did our fascination with horror come from?. Miranda Corcoran (2017) Scream! Just where did our fascination with horror come from?. Dublin: Electronic Article [Details] |
Guest Speaker
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(2019) | The Witch is Back: Witches in the Age of #MeToo. Miranda Corcoran (2019) The Witch is Back: Witches in the Age of #MeToo. Guest Speaker [Details] |
Magazine article
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(2019) | Atom Bombs and Beauty Queens: Female Sexuality and the Iconography of Destruction. Miranda Corcoran (2019) Atom Bombs and Beauty Queens: Female Sexuality and the Iconography of Destruction. Magazine article [Details] |
Review Articles
Year | Publication | |
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(2012) | Review of Stephen Schryer’s Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post-World War II American Fiction. Miranda Corcoran (2012) Review of Stephen Schryer’s Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post-World War II American Fiction. Review Articles [Details] |
Reviews
Year | Publication | |
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(2018) | Review of Superstition (Syfy Channel, 2017). Miranda Corcoran (2018) Review of Superstition (Syfy Channel, 2017). Reviews [Details] | |
(2018) | Review of The Vonnegut Encyclopedia by Marc Leeds. Miranda Corcoran (2018) Review of The Vonnegut Encyclopedia by Marc Leeds. Reviews [Details] | |
(2017) | Steve Gronert Ellerhoff, Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut. Miranda Corcoran (2017) Steve Gronert Ellerhoff, Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut. Reviews [Details] |
Radio Feature
Year | Publication | |
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(2020) | Ray Bradbury, a master of science fiction. BBC World Service - The Forum (2020) Ray Bradbury, a master of science fiction. Radio Feature [Details] |
Professional Activities
Honours and Awards
Year | Title | Awarding Body | |
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2020 | UCC College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences Publication Fund to | UCC | |
2018 | College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences Research Support Fund | UCC | |
2015 | Dr. Wasfia Mhabak Memorial Grant | Embodiments Research Group | |
2014 | Irish Association of American Studies Postgraduate Conference Bursary | Irish Association of American Studies | |
2013 | European Association of American Studies Travel Grant | European Association of American Studies | |
2013 | College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences Travel Bursary | College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, UCC |
Conference Contributions
Year | Publication | |
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(2019) | Embodying Fantastika, Miranda Corcoran (2019) “A Pack of Boby-Soxers”: Adolescent Embodiment and the Figure of the Teenage Witch in American Popular Culture. [Oral Presentation], Embodying Fantastika, Lancaster University . [Details] | |
(2019) | Folk Horror in the 21st Century, Miranda Corcoran and Andrea Di Carlo (2019) 'The Devil’s Territories’: Nature and the Sublime in Robert Eggers’ The Witch”. [Oral Presentation], Folk Horror in the 21st Century, Falmouth University . [Details] | |
(2019) | Theorizing Zombiism, Miranda Corcoran (2019) “‘Violence is Italian art’: Art and Adaptation in Lucio Fulci’s ‘Gates of Hell’ Trilogy”. [Oral Presentation], Theorizing Zombiism, University College Dublin . [Details] | |
(2019) | American Horror Story Symposium, Miranda Corcoran (2019) “It's going to take more than that ‘thing’ between your legs”: Identity, Violence and Adolescent Embodiment in American Horror Story: Coven. [Oral Presentation], American Horror Story Symposium, University of East Anglia . [Details] | |
(2018) | Progressive Connexions: Evil Women - Women and Evil, Miranda Corcoran (2018) The Monstrous Girl: Teen Witches, Abjection and the Horror of Femininity. [Oral Presentation], Progressive Connexions: Evil Women - Women and Evil, Mercure Hotel Vienna . [Details] |