About Miranda Corcoran

Miranda Corcoran is a lecturer in twenty-first-century literature in University College Cork. She is a regular contributor to Diabolique and blogs about popular culture here. You can follow her on Twitter @middleagedwitch

NBN Episodes hosted by Miranda:

U. Baer and S. Dayal, "Fictions of America: The Book of Firsts" (Warbler Press, 2020)

February 23, 2021

Fictions of America

Ulrich Baer and Smaran Dayal
Hosted by Miranda Corcoran

In this episode of New Books in Literary Studies, Miranda Corcoran speaks to Ulrich Baer and Smaran Dayal about their unique anthology, Fictions of …

Courtenay Stallings, "Laura's Ghost: Women Speak about Twin Peaks" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2020)

January 6, 2021

Laura's Ghost

Courtenay Stallings
Hosted by Miranda Corcoran

In this episode Miranda Corcoran speaks to Courtenay Stallings about her new book, Laura’s Ghost: Women Speak about Twin Peaks (Fayetteville Mafia Pre…

Christina Meyer, "Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid" (Ohio State UP, 2019)

November 18, 2020

Producing Mass Entertainment

Christina Meyer
Hosted by Miranda Corcoran

The Yellow Kid was a ubiquitous figure at the end of the nineteenth century. Originally created by Richard F. Outcault, the Kid first appeared as a ch…

Lissette Lopez Szwydky, "Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century" (Ohio State UP, 2020)

October 26, 2020

Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century

Lissette Lopez Szwydky
Hosted by Miranda Corcoran

In this episode of New Books in Literary Studies we speak with Lissette Lopez Szwydky, author of the new book Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth …

Ralph James Savarese, "See It Feelingly: Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor" (Duke UP, 2018)

March 29, 2019

See It Feelingly

Ralph James Savarese
Hosted by Miranda Corcoran

From the earliest days of medical research into autism, both psychologists and the general public have characterised those on the autism spectrum as l…

Melanie V. Dawson and Meredith L. Goldsmith, "American Literary History and the Turn toward Modernity" (UP of Florida, 2018)

December 12, 2018

American Literary History and the Turn toward Modernity

Melanie V. Dawson and Meredith L. Goldsmith, eds.
Hosted by Miranda Corcoran

As scholars and readers, we often view literary history in rigid, simplistic terms. We imagine that nineteenth-century aesthetic and thematic preoccup…

Jeffrey Kahan, "Shakespeare and Superheroes" (ARC Humanities Press, 2018)

October 18, 2018

Shakespeare and Superheroes

Jeffrey Kahan
Hosted by Miranda Corcoran

What do Shakespeare and superheroes have in common? A penchant for lycra and capes? A flair for the dramatic? Well, according to Shakespeare scholar, …

Marc Leeds, "The Vonnegut Encyclopedia" (Delacorte Press, 2016)

September 5, 2018

The Vonnegut Encyclopedia

Marc Leeds
Hosted by Miranda Corcoran

Originally published in 1994, Marc Leeds' The Vonnegut Encyclopedia (Delacorte Press, 2016) was initially conceived of as a comprehensive A-Z guide to…

Julia Miele Rodas, "Autistic Disturbances: Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe" (U Michigan Press, 2018)

September 3, 2018

Autistic Disturbances

Julia Miele Rodas
Hosted by Miranda Corcoran

Ever since the first clinical account of autism was published by Dr. Leo Kanner in 1943, Western culture has tended to mythologise the disorder as imp…

Christopher G. White, "Other Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions" (Harvard UP, 2018)

July 4, 2018

Other Worlds

Christopher G. White
Hosted by Miranda Corcoran

In the modern world, we often tend to view the scientific and the spiritual as diametrically opposed adversaries; we see them as fundamentally irrecon…

Mark A. McCutcheon, "The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology" (Athabasca UP, 2018)

May 3, 2018

The Medium Is the Monster

Mark McCutcheon
Hosted by Miranda Corcoran

What do Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, media theorist Marshall McLuhan and Canadian popular culture have in common? This is the question that Mark A. Mc…

Nick Admussen, "Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry" (U Hawaii Press, 2016)

April 11, 2018

Recite and Refuse

Nick Admussen
Hosted by Miranda Corcoran

Published by the University of Hawaii Press in 2016, Nick Admussen's exciting new book Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry explores t…