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Dr. Kevin Power

Associate Professor (English)
      
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Dr. Kevin Power

Associate Professor (English)

 powerk9@tcd.ie

 


Kevin Power is a novelist, essayist and critic from Dublin. His first novel, Bad Day in Blackrock, was published by The Lilliput Press in 2008 and was filmed by Element Films in 2012 as What Richard Did (dir. Lenny Abrahamson). In 2009 Kevin won a Hennessy XO Award for Emerging Fiction and the 2009 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. In 2013 he completed a PhD on the work of Norman Mailer at University College Dublin. His second novel, White City, was published by Scribner UK in 2021 and has been shortlisted for the Eason Irish Novel of the Year, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, and the Dalkey Book Festival Novel of the Year. In 2022 Kevin published The Written World: Essays and Reviews (The Lilliput Press), a collection of his essays and criticism. His writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Dublin Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Review, The Dublin Review of Books, The Irish Independent, The Business Post, and many other places. His academic work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cormac McCarthy Journal, The Mailer Review, Irish Journal of American Studies, The Cambridge History of the Irish Novel (Cambridge UP), John Banville in Context (Cambridge UP), and The Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis (Cambridge UP). Kevin is Assistant Professor of Literary Practice in the School of English, TCD.
  American Literature   Creative Writing
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Peer Reviewer for Humanities (MDPI) 2024
Member of Editorial Board, Society (journal published by Springer) 2021
Peer reviewer for Irish Gothic Journal
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Member of Editorial Board, Society (Springer Nature) 1st September 2022 Present
Member of Irish Association for American Studies 2015 Present
Member of the Norman Mailer Society 2015 Present
Kevin Power, Babycinos at the End of the World: Cormac McCarthy and Parenthood, The Cormac McCarthy Journal, 21, (1), 2023, p2 - 14, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Kevin Power, 'Audiences are composed of sentimental necrophiles': Notes on Norman Mailer's The Deer Park: A Play, The Mailer Review , 14, (1), 2021, p94 - 116, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Kevin Power, The Underground Frontier: Norman Mailer's An American Dream, Irish Journal of American Studies, (8), 2019, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Kevin Power, Morbid Symptoms: Norman Mailer's Barbary Shore, The Mailer Review, 11, (1), 2017, p150 - 177, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Kevin Power, Cures for Cancer: Norman Mailer's Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters), The Mailer Review, 9, (1), 2015, p210 - 226, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
  

Kevin Power, '"The Stinging Fly Podcast: Kevin Power Reads Eimear Ryan."', The Stinging Fly, 2024, -, Broadcast, PUBLISHED
Kevin Power, '"The Literary Festival"', The Irish Times, 2024, -, Fiction and creative prose, PUBLISHED
Kevin Power, '"Parental pursuits at Centre Parcs."', The Irish Times, 2024, -, Fiction and creative prose, PUBLISHED
Kevin Power, '"John Barth (1930-2024)."', The Dublin Review of Books, 2024, -, Fiction and creative prose, PUBLISHED
Kevin Power, '"Paul Auster (1947-2024): a life of hiding and seeking."', The Irish Times, 2024, -, Fiction and creative prose, PUBLISHED
Kevin Power, '"Breaking dad: a family trip to the Portuguese Riviera."', The Irish Times, 2024, -, Fiction and creative prose, PUBLISHED
Kevin Power, The Stinging Fly Book Reviewing Workshop with Kevin Power., Online via Zoom, 10th February, 2024, The Stinging Fly, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Kevin Power, "New Currents in Irish Literature.", 2024, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Kevin Power, "What Kamala Harris, Donald Trump and JD Vance's favourite books say about them.", 2024, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Kevin Power, "Taking everything to extremes.", Review of Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir, by Werner Herzog , The Irish Times, 2024, Review, PUBLISHED

  


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Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2009
Hennessy XO Award for Emerging Fiction 2009
Arts Council Literature Bursary Award 2016
Arts Council Literature Bursary Award 2012
Arts Council Literature Bursary Award 2016
UCD School of English & Drama Doctoral Fellowship 2006-7
Clinton Institute for American Studies PhD Scholarship 2004 2004-6