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Dr. Kevin Power

Dr. Kevin Power

Assistant Professor, English

Biography

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.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Kevin Power, Babycinos at the End of the World: Cormac McCarthy and Parenthood, The Cormac McCarthy Journal, 21, (1), 2023, p2 - 14Journal Article, 2023
  • 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 - 116Journal Article, 2021
  • Kevin Power, The Underground Frontier: Norman Mailer's An American Dream, Irish Journal of American Studies, (8), 2019Journal Article, 2019
  • Kevin Power, Morbid Symptoms: Norman Mailer's Barbary Shore, The Mailer Review, 11, (1), 2017, p150 - 177Journal Article, 2017
  • Kevin Power, Cures for Cancer: Norman Mailer's Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters), The Mailer Review, 9, (1), 2015, p210 - 226Journal Article, 2015

Research Expertise

Other Humanities, Languages and literature, Performing arts,

Recognition

  • 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