Miranda Corcoran

Miranda Corcoran is a lecturer in twenty-first-century literature at University College Cork. Her research interests include genre fiction, popular fiction, comics/graphic novels, sci-fi, horror, the gothic, witchcraft and Satanism in pop culture. Her first monograph, Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches, was published in 2022 by the University of Wales Press. Her second (short) monograph, The Craft, was published in 2023 by Auteur/Liverpool University Press. Her edited collection Satanism and Feminism in American Popular Culture: Not Today Satan was published in 2025. 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 also published articles on horror and science fiction in The Comics Grid, Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies, The New Ray Bradbury Review and Supernatural Studies. She is a regular contributor to the popular online magazine Diabolique.