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Dr Katie Muth

Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities and Modern Literature


Affiliations
Affiliation
Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities and Modern Literature in the Department of English Studies

Biography

Bio

Dr Muth specialises in digital humanities and postwar American literatures, with particular interests in text and network analysis, data visualisation, and Cold War studies. She joined the Department of English Studies in 2017. With Lorna Burns, she is editor of World Literature and Dissent (Routledge, 2019). She has also published on figures like Kathy Acker, Anne Howard Bailey, Paddy Chayefsky, Don DeLillo, Langston Hughes, Mo Yan, Thomas Pynchon, and Rod Serling. Dr Muth’s current book project Day Jobs: Postwar American Fiction and Work explores the intersection of creative economies and literary labour after World War II. You can see more of her work at https://krmuth.github.io/.

Esteem Indicators

  • 2022: Durham Grant Seedcorn Funding for ‘Mapping the cultural/ intelligence nexus in Britain and the US, c. 1939– 1992’:
  • 2019: Frederic D. Weinstein Memorial Fellowship Stipend, Harry Ransom Center:
  • 2018: Mayers Fellow, The Huntington Library:

Publications

Book review

Chapter in book

  • Postmodernism and Its Discontents, Or, The Cultural Logic of Don DeLillo
    Muth, K. (2023). Postmodernism and Its Discontents, Or, The Cultural Logic of Don DeLillo. In J. Kavadlo (Ed.), Don DeLillo in Context. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009025676.024
  • Nonfiction
    Muth, K. (2019). Nonfiction. In Thomas Pynchon in Context. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108683784.004
  • The problem of dissent
    Muth, K. (2019). The problem of dissent. In World Literature and Dissent. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203710302-3
  • Digital Readings
    Muth, K. (2019). Digital Readings. In The New Pynchon Studies. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108608916.011
  • Mass Media
    Muth, K. (2017). Mass Media. In American Literature in Transition, 1950–1960. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108289542.003

Edited book

  • World Literature and Dissent
    Burns, L., & Muth, K. (Eds.). (2019). World Literature and Dissent. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203710302

Journal Article