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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:
February 23, 2021
Fictions of America
In this episode of New Books in Literary Studies, Miranda Corcoran speaks to Ulrich Baer and Smaran Dayal about their unique anthology, Fictions of …
January 6, 2021
Laura's Ghost
In this episode Miranda Corcoran speaks to Courtenay Stallings about her new book, Laura’s Ghost: Women Speak about Twin Peaks (Fayetteville Mafia Pre…
November 18, 2020
Producing Mass Entertainment
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…
October 26, 2020
Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century
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 …
March 29, 2019
See It Feelingly
From the earliest days of medical research into autism, both psychologists and the general public have characterised those on the autism spectrum as l…
December 12, 2018
American Literary History and the Turn toward Modernity
As scholars and readers, we often view literary history in rigid, simplistic terms. We imagine that nineteenth-century aesthetic and thematic preoccup…
October 18, 2018
Shakespeare and Superheroes
What do Shakespeare and superheroes have in common? A penchant for lycra and capes? A flair for the dramatic? Well, according to Shakespeare scholar, …
September 5, 2018
The Vonnegut Encyclopedia
Originally published in 1994, Marc Leeds' The Vonnegut Encyclopedia (Delacorte Press, 2016) was initially conceived of as a comprehensive A-Z guide to…
September 3, 2018
Autistic Disturbances
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…
July 4, 2018
Other Worlds
In the modern world, we often tend to view the scientific and the spiritual as diametrically opposed adversaries; we see them as fundamentally irrecon…
May 3, 2018
The Medium Is the Monster
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…
April 11, 2018
Recite and Refuse
Published by the University of Hawaii Press in 2016, Nick Admussen's exciting new book Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry explores t…