Open Access Publishing My Experience - Dr Miranda Corcoran

Dr Miranda Corcoran speaks enthusiastically about her experience of publishing Open Access in the OLH. About how it opened her publication to a wider audience, resulting in it being one of her most cited outputs. She emphasised the need for access to publications and resources to those outside traditional audiences and institutions with budgets to cover subscriptions.
Dr Miranda Corcoran is a lecturer in twenty-first-century literature at University College Cork. Her research interests include genre fiction, popular fiction, comics/graphic novels, sci-fi, horror, the gothic, witchcraft and Satanism in pop culture. Her first monograph, Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches, was published in 2022 by the University of Wales Press.  She has also published articles on horror and science fiction in The Comics Grid, Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies, The New Ray Bradbury Review and Supernatural Studies.