General Scholarly Interests

Twentieth Century English and Irish Literature; Contemporary Literary Theory, especially

realism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism; Digital Archiving and Website Administration;

the writings of Kingsley and Martin Amis, Philip Larkin, Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson,

W.B. Yeats, and Martin McDonagh.

 

Recent & Forthcoming Books
		MARTIN AMIS: POSTMODERNISM AND BEYOND Gavin Keulks, ed. and intro. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave, 2006.
		"This collection represents a real advance in Martin Amis studies. Twelve informed and exciting essays by an international range of leading Amis scholars and critics explore his novels and literary journalism from a wide variety of aspects and provide a rich source of fresh insights and perspectives. In a theoretically sophisticated but accessible way, they examine the structure, language and significance of his work and its controversial engagements with postmodernity, class, gender and Holocaust. The collection also contains an invaluable bibliography of Amis's prolific nonfiction. This book is essential reading for all those interested in Amis and contemporary writing." -- Nicolas Tredell, editor of The Fiction of Martin Amis
		FATHER AND SON: KINGSLEY AMIS, MARTIN AMIS, & THE BRITISH NOVEL SINCE 1950 Gavin Keulks. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003 and 2005.
		"Father and Son will be important to specialists in the field as well as to students of the twentieth-century novel generally. It provides the only extended treatment of a unique literary genealogy." -- James Diedrick, author of Understanding Martin Amis "Keulks' book is holding and absorbing, filled with excellently shrewd and steady analysis of selected novels, essays and interviews set in the context of the status and future of the realistic novel, the transition from modernism to postmodernism, and the existential condition of post-World War II life." -- Dale Salwak, author of Kingsley Amis: Modern Novelist and Kingsley Amis: In Life and Letters
		FLIGHT [novel] 80,000 word completed manuscript. Currently unpublished.

Recent & Forthcoming Publications (since 2007) 

“Kingsley Amis” and “Martin Amis.” Two articles (2000 words each) for the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth-

Century Fiction. 3 Vols. Eds. Brian Shaffer et al. Oxford and Boston: Blackwell, 2011.

"'No less than we deserve': the Traditional Roots of the Amises' Contemporary Satires." Critical Engagements satire

special-issue. Winter 2010.

"'Preferring the composite darkness': Trauma Theory and Narration in The Ground Beneath Her Feet and

Shalimar the Clown." Rushdie the Novelist: from Grimus to The Enchantress of Florence . Ed. Meenakshi Bharat.

Delhi, India: Pencraft International, 2008. 247-63.

"Trappists" and "Houdini" [two poems]. The Antigonish Review 153 (Summer 2008): 76-79.

"Retreating" [poem]. The Merton Journal 15.1 (Easter  2008): 23-24.

"Winterson's Recent Work: Navigating Realism and Postmodernism."  Jeanette Winterson: A Contemporary

Critical Guide. Ed. Sonya Andermahr. London and New York: Continuum, 2007. 146-62.

"'New York, Los Angeles, and Other Toxicities:" Revisiting Postmodernism in Rushdie's Fury and Shalimar the

Clown." The Mourning After: Attending the Wake of Postmodernism.  Eds. Neil Brooks and Josh Toth.

Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007.143-68.

 

"Shadowy Margins and Sinkholes: Authorship, Online Archives, and IP Law." Popular and American Culture

National Conference. Boston, MA, April 2012.

"The Rhetoric of Road-Rage: Authorial Websites and Literary Hit-and-Runs." Popular and American Culture

National Conference. San Antonio, TX, April 2011.

"The Mythology of Martin Amis." Midwest Modern Language Association. Chicago, IL. November 2010.

"Critical Mass: Violence, Passion, and the Irish Political Grotesque." Northeast Modern Language Association.

Montreal, Quebec. April 2010.

"Terrible Beauties, Beautiful Terrors: McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane." Midwest Modern Language

Association. St Louis, MO, November 2009.

Invited Fellow, International Canadian Studies Institute. Alberta Province Locations: Calgary, Banff Centre,

Ice Fields Parkway, Athabasca Glacier, Edmonton, Fort McMurray Oil Sands, Drumheller, Lethbridge.

14-26 July 2009.

"Martin McDonagh and the Political Grotesque." Popular and American Culture National Conference.

New Orleans, LA, April 2009.

“The Bad Boys of Lad Lit: Tremors of Post-Feminism in the Novels of Kingsley and Martin Amis.” Northeast

Modern Language Association. Boston, MA, February 2009.