Dr. David Coughlan
Responsibilities
- Lecturer in English
- Erasmus coordinator for English
Academic Background
- 2007-2008 – IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, University College Cork
- 2006-2007 – Teaching Assistant in English, Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick
- 2002-2005 – Lecturer in English, Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University, Tokyo
- 1997-2002 – PhD in English Literature, Goldsmiths College, University of London
- 1995-1997 – MPhil in English Literature, University College Cork
- 1992-1995 – BA in English and Philosophy, University College Cork
Research Interests
20th and 21st century literature, particularly American fiction; popular culture and graphic narrative; masculinity studies; and literary theory.
where ghosts live (4-6 September 2009) was a conference organised by Dr Coughlan and Prof. Graham Allen of the Department of English, UCC.
Selected Publications (2000- )
Coughlan, David, and Graham Allen, eds. Where Ghosts Live. Special issue of Derrida Today 5.2 (2012): forthcoming.
“The Art of Everyday Haunting.” Where Ghosts Live. Special issue of Derrida Today 5.2 (2012): forthcoming.
“Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude and Omega: The Unknown, a Comic Book Series.” College Literature 38.3 (2011): 194-218.
“Paul Auster.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Fiction. Ed. Patrick O’Donnell, Justus Nieland, and David Madden. Blackwell, 2011.
“The Naked Hero and Model Man: Costumed Identity in Comic Book Narratives.” Heroes of Film, Comics and American Culture: Essays on Real and Fictional Defenders of Home. Ed. Lisa DeTora. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 234-52.
“The Sewers, the City, the Tower: Pynchon’s V., Fausto’s Confessions, and Yeats’s A Vision.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 50.1 (2008): 35-50.
“Paul Auster’s Ghost Writers.” Space, Haunting, Discourse. Ed. Maria Holmgren Troy and Elisabeth Wennö. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, 2008. 145-54.
“Paul Auster’s City of Glass: The Graphic Novel.” Modern Fiction Studies 52.4 (2006): 832-54.
Rev. of Essays in Aesthetics, by Gérard Genette. Modern Language Review 101.3 (2006): 859-60.
“Postmodernism.” The Literary Encyclopedia. Ed. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd. 20 Dec. 2005. The Literary Dictionary Company.
“Praising the Tellable: John Banville’s Kepler.” Journal of Policy and Culture (Sogoseisaku Kenkyu) 12 (2005): 231-245.
“The Wide Open Spaces of Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy.” Journal of Policy and Culture (Sogoseisaku Kenkyu) 11 (2004): 177-202.
“Reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled.” Journal of Policy and Culture (Sogoseisaku Kenkyu) 10 (2003): 259-83.
“Situated Intertextuality: Networks, Borders and the Space of Literature.” Spaces and Crossings: Essays on Literature and Culture in Africa and Beyond. Ed. Rita Wilson and Carlotta von Maltzan. Literary and Cultural Theory 9. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2001. 73-86.
“Nathalie Melikian: Her War of Words.” Frankfurter Kunstverein.Hefte: Eine Munition unter Anderen 1 (2000): S28-32.
“Framework: Nathalie Melikian’s Intertext.” The Visual-Narrative Matrix: Interdisciplinary Collisions and Collusions. Ed. Graham Coulter-Smith. Southampton: Southampton Institute, 2000. 133-36.
Selected Conferences (2000- )
Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland and the Beyond of Boundaries.” Ten Years On – 9/11 in European Literature. Oxford University, Oxford. Sept. 2011.
“The Masculinity Crisis in Superhero Comic Books.” Expanding the Frontiers of Comparative Literature. The XIXth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA). Chung-Ang University, Seoul. Aug. 2010.
“The Art of Mourning: Derrida and DeLillo.” The 2nd International Derrida Today Conference. Kingston University and Macquarie University, London. July 2010.
“Discarded Cultures.” Invited Speaker, Tangents: Disregarded Cultures. Lewis Glucksman Gallery. University College Cork, Cork. Feb. 2010.
“The Art of Everyday Haunting.” where ghosts live. University College Cork, Cork. Sept. 2009.
“Derrida in America, by way of Auster.” Derrida and America. University College Dublin, Dublin. June 2009.
“Following in Derrida’s Footsteps: Auster’s Encrypted Writing.” Writing in a Post-Derridean Era. Växjö University, Växjö. Oct. 2008.
“How to Read What Isn’t There: The Transtextual Medium.” Shaping Readers: Selection and Editing. The Second Annual Making Books, Shaping Readers Conference. University College Cork, Cork. Apr. 2008.
“Defining Text’s Lived Space.” Defining Space. University College Dublin, Dublin. Oct. 2007.
“Inside the Locked Room: Paul Auster and Edgar Allan Poe.” The Scene of the Crime: Setting in Modern Crime Fiction. 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference of the Atlantic Alliance of Universities Crime Genre Research Group. University of Limerick, Limerick. June 2007.
“Orphans Again: Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled and When We Were Orphans.” Kazuo Ishiguro and the International Novel. Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool. June 2007.
“Paul Auster’s Ghost Writers.” Space, Haunting, Discourse. Karlstads Universitet, Karlstad. June 2006.
“The Visual Translation of Paul Auster’s City of Glass.” Open to View: Popular Fiction and Visual Narrative. Association for Research in Popular Fictions (ARPF) 12th Annual Conference. Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool. Nov. 2005.
“The Tower, the City, the Sewers: Art, Death, and Memory in Yeats and Pynchon.” Landscapes of Memory: Envisaging the Past/Remembering the Future. XXIV Portuguese Anglo-American Studies Association (APEAA) Conference. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon. Apr. 2003.
“Re-Wind Reel and Print: The Filmic Texts of Nathalie Melikian.” Invited Speaker, Joint Research Forum. School of Art and Design and the Department of English and Drama. Loughborough University, Loughborough. May 2000.