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David Coughlan
University of Limerick
David Coughlan is Lecturer in English at the School of English, Irish, and Communication, University of Limerick, Ireland. He gained his PhD from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and held teaching and research posts at Chuo University and University College Cork respectively before joining University of Limerick in 2008. He is a former Chair of the Irish Association for American Studies and former Editor of the association's official journal, IJAS Online.
His research interests are in late twentieth-century and contemporary fiction, in graphic novels and comics, and in literary and critical theory. He has published in the journals Cultural Critique (forthcoming), ImageTexT , College Literature , Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction , and Modern Fiction Studies , in a number of edited collections, and in the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction and The Literary Encyclopedia. He has been a contributing co-editor on two special journal issues: Where Ghosts Live for Derrida Today in 2012 and Survival of the Death Sentence for Parallax in 2016. He is the author of Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction , published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2016.
“Morrison, Quitely, Milligan, McCarthy, Moore, Totleben, Gaiman, McKean.”
’Nuff said.
C-S Publications
Coughlan, David. “Adaptation: From Mason & Dixon by Pynchon to Miller & Pynchon by Maurer.” More Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods, edited by Matthew J. Brown, Randy Duncan, and Matthew J. Smith, Routledge, 2020, pp. 191-205.
Coughlan, David. “From Shame into Glory in The Filth.” Grant Morrison and the Superhero Renaissance: Critical Essays, edited by Darragh Greene and Kate Roddy, McFarland, 2015, pp. 115-30.
Mahmutović, Adnan, David Coughlan, and Stephen Blake Ervin. “Ecce Animot: Or, The Animal Man That Therefore I Am.” The Worlds of Grant Morrison, special issue of ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, edited by Francesco-Alessio Ursini, Mahmutović, and Frank Bramlett, vol. 8, no. 2, 2015, https://imagetextjournal.com/ecce-animot-or-the-animal-man-that-therefore-i-am/.
Coughlan, David. “Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude and Omega: The Unknown, a Comic Book Series.” Visual Literature, special issue of College Literature, vol. 38, no. 3, 2011, 194-218.
Coughlan, David. “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, edited by Lisa DeTora, McFarland, 2009, pp. 234-52.
Coughlan, David. “Paul Auster’s City of Glass: The Graphic Novel.” Graphic Narrative, special issue of MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, edited by Hillary Chute and Marianne DeKoven, vol. 52, no. 4, 2006, pp. 832-54.
Into C-S
Coughlan, David. “Mason & Dixon and Pynchon and Miller & Pynchon and Maurer.” International Pynchon Week, June 2019, Rome, Italy. Conference paper.
Coughlan, David. “Betraying Pynchon: Leopold Maurer’s Miller & Pynchon.” Confidence-Men and Hucksters, Corruption and Governance in the US, Irish Association for American Studies (IAAS) Annual Conference, Apr. 2019, University College Cork, Cork. Conference paper.
Coughlan, David. “Grant Morrison’s Human Animal Man.” The Many Languages of Comparative Literature, 21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA). University of Vienna, Vienna. July 2016. Conference paper.
Buchenberger, Stefan, David Coughlan, Kai Mikkonen, and Lea Pao, session organisers. “Unsettled Narratives: Graphic Novel and Comics Studies in the 21st Century.” The Many Languages of Comparative Literature, 21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), July 2016, University of Vienna, Vienna.
Coughlan, David, and Adnan Mahmutović. “Grant Morrison’s Animot Man.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2015 Annual Meeting, Mar. 2015, University of Washington, Seattle. Conference paper.
Coughlan, David. “Morrison’s Abject Filth.” Whose side are you on?, Dec. 2013, Stockholm University, Stockholm. Conference paper.
Coughlan, David. “The Shame Inoculation: Morrison’s The Filth.” Comparative Literature as a Critical Approach?, 20th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), July 2013, University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris. Conference paper.
Coughlan, David. “From Shame into Glory in Grant Morrison’s The Filth.” Grant Morrison and the Superhero Renaissance, Sept. 2012, Trinity College Dublin. Conference paper.
Coughlan, David. “The Masculinity Crisis in Superhero Comic Books.” Expanding the Frontiers of Comparative Literature, XIXth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Aug. 2010, Chung-Ang University, Seoul. Conference paper.
Coughlan, David. “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, Nov. 2005, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool. Conference paper.
ICLA Research Commitee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative (2024)
