{"id":19485,"date":"2026-03-25T11:10:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/?post_type=person&#038;p=19485"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:46:16","slug":"dr-ciaran-kavanagh","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/person\/dr-ciaran-kavanagh\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ciar\u00e1n Kavanagh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Academic Career<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>April 2026 &#8211; September 2026: KWI International Fellow, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen.<\/li>\n<li>October 2025 &#8211; Present: Associated Researcher<strong>, <\/strong>Ghent University, Department of Literary Studies.<\/li>\n<li>September 2022 &#8211; October 2025: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen), Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University.<\/li>\n<li>May 2021 &#8211; August 2022: Research Development Officer, Horizon EU Team, UCC Academy.<\/li>\n<li>September 2015 &#8211; September 2019: Doctoral Researcher<strong>, <\/strong>Irish Research Council (IRC), University College Cork.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reader-response theory<\/li>\n<li>science fiction studies<\/li>\n<li>emotion studies<\/li>\n<li>epistemic emotions (awe, boredom, seriousness &#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>ecocritism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kavanagh, Ciar\u00e1n. <em>Refiguring Reader-Response: Experience and Interpretation in Contemporary Fiction<\/em>. University of Nebraska Press, Frontiers of Narrative, April 2027.<\/li>\n<li>Kavanagh, Ciar\u00e1n. \u201cCultivating Seriousness: Science Fiction, Authority, and the Rise of AI.\u201d <em>Futuri<\/em>, vol. 25, May\/June 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Kavanagh, Ciar\u00e1n. \u201cScience Fiction, and the Problem(atic) of Seriousness\u201d. <em>Extrapolation<\/em>, vol. 66, no.1. 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3828\/extr.2025.2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3828\/extr.2025.2<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kavanagh, Ciar\u00e1n. \u201cSlow, Complex, Dull? Climate Boredom and Kim Stanley Robinson\u2019s <em>The Ministry for the Future<\/em>\u201d. <em>Journal of Boredom Studies<\/em>, no.3, 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.15294598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.15294598<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kavanagh, Ciar\u00e1n. \u201cRefiguring Reader-Response: Experience and Interpretation in J.G. Ballard\u2019s Crash\u201d. <em>Experiencing Powerful Prose: How Textual Features Impact Readers.<\/em> Edited by Mariane Utudji and Victoria P\u00f6hls. Transcript, 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":19484,"template":"","person_category":[437,277],"class_list":["post-19485","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","person_category-fellows","person_category-forschende"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/19485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=19485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}