Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- American Poetry, in particular Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop and the Middle Generation
- American Fiction
- Transcendentalism
- Addiction and Literature
- Literature and Suicide
Public outreach & key achievements
- Professor McGowan is the current President of the European Association for American Studies (eaas.eu), 2016-2020
- Talking Books, episode 77: F Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby, 28 June 2015
Research students
| PhD Title | ‘Marilynne Robinson: Theologian of the Ordinary’ |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD Title | Stereotypes in Jewish Film Directors |
| Country | USA |
| PhD Title | ‘Heaney’s America’ |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Title | ‘Two Camps’ (Creative Writing PhD) |
| Country | USA |
| Current Position | Lecturer in Creative Writing, Oxford Brookes University |
| PhD Title | ‘The First Thing That Happens’ (Creative Writing PhD) |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| Current Position | Lyric Theatre, Belfast |
| PhD Title | John McGahern |
| Country | England |
| Current Position | Camara, Ireland |