Biography
Dr David Coughlan studied for his BA in English and Philosophy at University College Cork. He completed his MPhil in English Literature at UCC also before gaining his PhD from Goldsmiths College, University of London. He was a Lecturer in English at Chuo University, Tokyo, a Teaching Assistant at the University of Limerick, and an IRC Government of Ireland Post-Doctoral Fellow at UCC before joining the School of English, Irish, and Communication at UL as a Lecturer in English in 2008. He was Associate Head of School (Quality in Teaching, Learning and Research) from 2009 to 2011 and Head of English from 2016 to 2019. He was Chair of the Irish Association for American Studies from 2017 to 2019 and is Executive Editor of the association's official journal, Irish Journal of American Studies IJAS Online.
He has published on contemporary American fiction and graphic narrative in the journals 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.
Research Interests
Dr Coughlan's research interests are in 20th and 21st-century literature, particularly American fiction; popular culture and graphic narrative; and literary and cultural theory. He has supervised PhDs on post-9/11 literature and on genre cinema and the digital. He has supervised MA theses on topics including the representation of trauma, time, and memory in post-9/11 fiction; terrorism and crime in contemporary American fiction; American utopian literature; and the poetry of Li Qingzhao and Emily Dickinson.
Professional Activities
Association
- 2017 Former Chair, Irish Association for American Studies (IAAS)
- 2011 Founder and administrator , Graphic Narrative Research
- 2010 Member, International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)
- Member, Association for Philosophy and Literature (APL)
- Member, European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
- Member, Modern Language Assocation (MLA)
- Member, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Award
- 2016 - UL First Seven Weeks Teaching Award, AHSS Winner
- 2013 - UL Award for Excellence in Large Group Teaching, Joint Winner
- 2010 - UL First Seven Weeks Teaching/Advising Award, Overall Winner
- 2007 - IRCHSS Government of Ireland Post-Doctoral Fellow
- 1995 - UCC Title of College Scholar
Committee
- 2012 IAAS Irish Association for American Studies Executive Committee (2012- ),
- 2011 UL First Seven Weeks Committee (2011-12),
- 2010 UL Student Experience Committee (2010-11),
- 2010 AHSS Faculty Teaching Board (2010-11),
- 2009 UL Languages Week Committee (2009-10),
- 2009 LLCC Student Status Committee (2009-11),
Education
- 2002 Goldsmiths College, University of London - Ph.D.
- 1997 University College Cork - M.Phil.
- 1995 University College Cork - B.A.
Publications
Book
Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction
Coughlan, D.
DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-41024-5
Book Chapter
Adaptation: From <i>Mason & Dixon</i> by Pynchon to <i>Miller & Pynchon</i> by Maurer
Coughlan, D.
More Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429433696
From Shame into Glory in <i>The Filth</i>
Coughlan, D.
Grant Morrison and the Superhero Renaissance: Critical Essays
"Sappy or no, it's true": Affect and Expression in <i>Brief Interviews with Hideous Men</i>
Coughlan, D.
Critical Insights: David Foster Wallace
The Naked Hero and Model Man: Costumed Identity in Comic Book Narratives
Coughlan, D.
Heroes of Film, Comics and American Culture: Essays on Real and Fictional Defenders of Home
Paul Auster's Ghost Writers
Coughlan, D.
Space, Haunting, Discourse
Situated Intertextuality: Networks, Borders and the Space of Literature
Coughlan, D.
Spaces and Crossings: Essays on Literature and Culture in Africa and Beyond
Framework: Nathalie Melikian's intertext
Coughlan, D.
The Visual-Narrative Matrix: Interdisciplinary Collisions and Collusions
Conference Contribution
International Pynchon Week
Coughlan, D.
JD19
Coughlan, D.
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2019 Annual Meeting
Coughlan, D., D. Huddart, and E. Wijaya
Conspiracy Theory and Narratives of 9/11
Coughlan, D.
The 6th Derrida Today Conference
Coughlan, D., D. Rubenstein, and E. Wijaya
The 6th Derrida Today Conference
Coughlan, D.
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2017 Annual Meeting
Coughlan, D., C. Diakoulakis, D. Huddart, and E. Wijaya
The Many Languages of Comparative Literature, 21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)
Pao, L., D. Coughlan, K. Mikkonen, and S. Buchenberger
The 5th Derrida Today Conference
Coughlan, D.
The 5th Derrida Today Conference
Diakoulakis, C., D. Huddart, and D. Coughlan
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2016 Annual Meeting
Wijaya, E., D. Coughlan, and D. Huddart
Department of English and American Studies
Coughlan, D.
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2015 Annual Meeting
Coughlan, D., and A. Mahmutović
American Literature 1
Coughlan, D.
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2015 Annual Meeting
Coughlan, D., and E. Wijaya
JD14 Circonfession Circumfession
Coughlan, D.
Capitals, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2014 Annual Meeting
Wijaya, E., D. Coughlan, and D. Huddart
The Higher Literary Seminar, Department of English
Coughlan, D.
JD13 On touching Le toucher
Coughlan, D.
Between Bodies / Bodies Between
Coughlan, D.
Whose side are you on?
Coughlan, D.
Hospitalities: Biopolitics, Technologies, Humanities, International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL) 2013 Conference
Wijaya, E., D. Coughlan, C. Diakoulakis, and D. Huddart
Grant Morrison and the Superhero Renaissance
Coughlan, D.
Ten Years On 9/11 in European Literature
Coughlan, D.
Conversations in the Consortium
Coughlan, D.
Tangents: Disregarded Cultures
Coughlan, D.
The 2nd International Derrida Today Conference
Coughlan, D.
The 2nd International Derrida Today Conference
Coughlan, D., J. McSweeney, and E. Wijaya
Research Seminar, English Section
Coughlan, D.
Research Seminar
Coughlan, D.
Derrida and America
Coughlan, D.
where ghosts live
Coughlan, D.
where ghosts live
Allen, G., and D. Coughlan
Writing in a Post-Derridean Era
Coughlan, D.
Kazuo Ishiguro and the International Novel
Coughlan, D.
Defining Space
Coughlan, D.
Space, Haunting, Discourse
Coughlan, D.
Postgraduate Seminar Series, Department of English
Coughlan, D.
Research Seminar, Department of English
Coughlan, D.
Conference Publication
Other Journal
The Wide Open Spaces of Paul Auster's <i>The New York Trilogy</i>
Coughlan, D
Sogoseisaku Kenkyu (Journal of Policy and Culture)
Reading Kazuo Ishiguro's <i>The Unconsoled</i>
Coughlan, D
Sogoseisaku Kenkyu (Journal of Policy and Culture)
Other Publication
Issue 8 Editorial, <i>IJAS Online</i>
Coughlan, D.
Issue 5 Editorial, <i>IJAS Online</i>
Coughlan, D.
DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26637412
Survival of the Death Sentence</i>. Special issue of <i>Parallax
Coughlan, D., C. Diakoulakis, D. Huddart, and E. Wijaya
Parallax
Which Side are You On? A Roundtable (Transcript and Video)
Ursini, F.-A., A. Mahmutovic, F. Bramlett, K. Roddy, K. Scott, D. Greene, N. Galante, T. Kakko, D. Coughlan, and R. Cook
ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies
where ghosts live</i>. Special issue of <i>Derrida Today
Allen, G., and D. Coughlan
Derrida Today
Paul Auster
Coughlan, D.
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction
Review of <i>Essays in Aesthetics</i> by Gérard Genette
Coughlan, D.
Modern Language Review
DOI: 10.2307/20466958
Postmodernism
Coughlan, D.
The Literary Encyclopedia
[Title Centred Bold] Genre, Intertextuality, and Nathalie Melikian
Coughlan, D.
Melodrama
Peer Reviewed Journal
Introduction: Survival of the Death Sentence
Coughlan, D., C. Diakoulakis, D. Huddart, and E. Wijaya
Parallax
DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2016.1144462
The Drive to Read: Freud, Oedipus and Ishiguro's <i>The Unconsoled</i>
Coughlan, D.
Parallax
DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2016.1144461
<i>Ecce Animot</i>: Or, The Animal Man That Therefore I Am
Mahmutović, A., D. Coughlan, and S. B. Ervin
ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies
Preface: where ghosts live
Allen, G., and D. Coughlan
Derrida Today
DOI: 10.3366/drt.2012.0036
The Art of Everyday Haunting
Coughlan, D.
Derrida Today
DOI: 10.3366/drt.2012.0040
Jonathan Lethem's <i>The Fortress of Solitude</i> and <i>Omega: The Unknown</i>, a Comic Book Series
Coughlan, D.
College Literature
DOI: 10.1353/lit.2011.0028
The Sewers, the City, the Tower: Pynchon's <i>V.</i>, Fausto's Confessions, and Yeats's <i>A Vision</i>
Coughlan, D.
Critique-Studies In Contemporary Fiction
DOI: 10.3200/CRIT.50.1.35-50
Paul Auster's <i>City of Glass</i>: The Graphic Novel
Coughlan, D.
Mfs-Modern Fiction Studies
DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2007.0006
Nathalie Melikian: Her War of Words
Coughlan, D
Frankfurter Kunstverein.Hefte