Dr Ciarán Kavanagh
Academic, Lecturer, and Researcher in Ghent, Belgium
Research
I hold a PhD in English Literature, specialising in Reader-Response Theory, which was awarded in 2019 by University College Cork. My first book, Refiguring Reader-Response, is due out with University of Nebraska Press in 2026. I am currently a research fellow in Ghent University, finishing a three-year FWO postdoctoral project on the concept of seriousness in science fiction's discursive cultures. I am developing a new project on awe emotions in science fiction and it's reception. My research is broadly covered by the keywords of science/speculative fiction; genre theory; general critical theory; reader-response; contemporary literature; narratology; ecocriticism; embodiment and affect; and postmodernism.
Links and Contact
The button above will direct you to my Google Scholar, which should link to all my articles. Do feel free to get in contact if you want to read any that are not yet open access. Likewise, I will be very welcome to any email with any academic or professional inquiry.
Contact me at Ciaran.Kavanagh [@] ugent.be or [@] umail.ucc.ie
(Sometimes emails fall prey to overzealous firewalls, so feel free to double email me if I don't get back to you.)