PUBLICATIONS

IN PROGRESS – these are the things I am currently working on, all at various stages from brainstorming to production.

American Folk Horrors, edited collection, in progress.

“Witchcraft and ‘Racecraft’: Folk Horror in Mariama Diallo’s Master,” submitted to Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2024; to be submitted to the Journal of American Studies.

“(Eco)-weirding folk horror in Alex Garland’s Men,” in Eco-Weird, edited by Brian Onishi and Nathan Bell (proposal under review).

“Cernunnos and Krampus: Paganism and Populism in Der Pass,” in Caprine Gothic, edited by Simon Bacon (University of Wales Press).

Forthcoming

“Doctor Who, Folk Horror and ‘Somewhere’-‘Anywhere’ Conflict,” in Critical Approaches to Horror in Doctor Who, edited by Robert Kilker.

“The Mechanical Uncanny: Social Media and Digital Doubles in Unfriended (2014) and Cam (2018),” in Filtered Reality: The Progenitors and Evolution of the Found Footage Horror Film, edited by Rebecca Booth and Ryan Todd (House of Leaves Publishing, forthcoming), 17 pp.

In Print

Folk Gothic, Elements in the Gothic Series (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

Folk Horror: New Global Pathways, co-edited with Ruth Heholt (University of Wales Press, 2023). 

Jordan Peele’s Get Out: Political Horror (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, New Suns Series, 2020). 

The Politics of Race, Gender and Sexuality in The Walking Dead: Essays on the Television Series and the Comics, co-edited with Elizabeth Erwin (McFarland, 2018). 

The Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, co-edited with Matthew Wynn Sivils (New York: Routledge, 2017). 

Making a Monster: Jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer of 1870s Boston (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017).

Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film, co-edited with Angela Tenga (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

“We’re All Infected”: Essays on AMC’s The Walking Dead and the Fate of the Human, ed. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014). 

Public Women, Public Words: A Documentary History of American Feminism, Vol. 11, 1900-1970, Dawn Keetley and John Pettegrew (Lanham, Maryland; Rowman and Littlefield, 2002);  Vol. 111, 1970-2000, Ed. Dawn Keetley and John Pettegrew (Lanham, Maryland; Rowman and Littlefield, 2002); Vol. 1, Beginnings-1900, Dawn Keetley and John Pettegrew (Madison: Madison House Publishers, Inc., 1997). 

Editor

Guest editor (with Jeff Tolbert) of a special issue of Horror Studies, Folk Horror (14.1 October 2023).

Guest editor, special issue of Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural, Folk Horror (Fall 2019).

Critical Conversation in Horror Studies series, Lehigh University Press (ongoing). 

Articles & Chapters

“‘The Dark is Here’: The Third Day and Folk Horror’s Anxiety about Birthrate, Immigration, and Race,” in The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror, edited by Robert Edgar and Wayne Johnson (Routledge, 2023), 355-65.

“Doomwatch: The ‘Revolting Subjects’ and Intransigent Places of Folk Horror,” in Folk Horror: Return of the British Repressed, edited by Louis Bayman and K. J. Donnelly (Manchester University Press, 2023), 87-103.

“Sacrifice Zones in Appalachian Folk Horror,” in Folk Horror: New Global Pathways, edited by Ruth Heholt and Dawn Keetley (University of Wales Press, 2023), 245-61.

“Forms of Folk Horror in Halloween III: Season of the Witch,” Journal of American Culture 45.4 (December 2022), pp. 373-85. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jacc.13405.

“Folk Gothic and the Plantation in True Detective,” in Gothic in the Anthropocene: Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth, edited by Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund, and Johan Höglund (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), 13-50.

“The Twilight Zone’s ‘Stopover in a Quiet Town,’ the Horror Film, and Dread of the Child,” in The Twilight Zone, edited by Kevin Wetmore (McFarland, 2021), 113-23.

“Monsters and Monstrosity,” in The Cambridge Companion to American Horror, edited by Stephen Shapiro and Mark Storey (Cambridge University Press, 2022), 183-97.

“Black Mold, White Extinction: I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, The Haunting of Hill House, “Gray Matter,” and H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Shunned House,” in Haunted Nature: Entanglements of the Human and the Nonhuman, edited by Sladja Blazan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), 43-66. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-81869-2.

“Climate Change, ‘Anthropocene Unburials’, and Agency on a Thawing Planet,” Science Fiction Film and Television Studies, for special issue, “Creature Features and the Environment,” edited by Christy Tidwell and Bridgette Barclay, 14.3 (2021): 375-93.

“Tentacular Horror and the Agency of Trees in Algernon Blackwood’s ‘The Man Whom the Trees Loved’ and Without Name,” in Fear and Nature: Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene, eds. Christy Tidwell and Carter Soles, AnthropoScene Series (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021), 23-41. https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09021-4.html.

“Dislodged Anthropocentrism and Ecological Critique in Folk Horror: From ‘Children of the Corn’ and The Wicker Man to ‘In the Tall Grass’ and Children of the Stones,” Gothic Nature 2 (2021), 13-36.

“Mike Flanagan’s Mold-centric The Haunting of Hill House,” in The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaptation, edited by Kevin Wetmore (McFarland, 2020), 107-17.

“Get Out: Political Horror,” in Jordan Peele’s Get Out: Political Horror, edited by Dawn Keetley (Ohio State University Press, 2020), 1-18.

“Defining Folk Horror,” Introduction to special issue of Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural, “Folk Horror,” 5 (March 2020), 1-32.

“Sleep and the Reign of the Uncanny in the Postrecession Horror Film,” The Journal of Popular Culture 52.5 (October 2019), 1017-35.

“Lock Her Up: Anxious Masculinity and the Captive Woman in Post-Recession Horror,” in Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror and the Politics of Fear, edited by Victoria McCollum (Routledge, 2019), 97-108.

“The Shock of Aging (Women) in Horror Film,” in Elder Horror: Essays on Film’s Frightening Images of Aging, edited by Cynthia Miller and Bow Van Riper (McFarland, 2019), 58-69.

Foreword to The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature, edited by Kevin Corstorphine and Laura Kremmel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

“Introduction: Identity Politics in The Walking Dead” and “Afterword: From Identity Politics to Tribalism,” in The Politics of Race, Gender and Sexuality in The Walking Dead: Essays on the Television Series and the Comics, co-edited with Elizabeth Erwin (McFarland, 2018), 1-9, 155-63.

“Showtime’s Dexter: On the Horror of Being (Non)Human,” Horror Studies 9.1 (Spring 2018): 51-68.

“Introduction: Approaches to the Ecogothic” (with Matthew Wynn Sivils), in The Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, edited by Dawn Keetley and Matthew Wynn Sivils (New York: Routledge, 2017), 1-20.

“Hater: Zombies and Post-Millennial Rage,” in The Written Dead: Essays on the Literary Zombie edited by Kyle Bishop and Angela Tenga (McFarland, 2017), 133-44.

“Six Theses on Plant Horror; or, Why Are Plants Horrifying?” in Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film, edited by Dawn Keetley and Angela Tenga (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), 1-30. 

“Thirteen Women (1932): An Unacknowledged Horror Classic” (with Gwendolyn Hofmann), Journal of Film and Video 68.1 (Spring 2016): 31-47.

“Frozen, The Grey, and the Possibilities of Posthumanist Horror,” in Animal Horror Cinema: Genre, History and Criticism, ed. Johan Höglund, Nicklas Hållén, and Katarina Gregersdotteer (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015): 187-205.

‘The “vegetative part”: Organic and Plant Life in The Walking Dead,’ Journal of Popular Television 3.1 (April 2015): 37-55.

“Zombie Republic: Property and the Propertyless Multitude in the Post-Apocalyptic World,” in a special issue of The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, “After/Lives: What’s Next for Humanities,” ed. by Kyle Bishop and Sarah Juliet Lauro, 25.2-3 (November 2014): 324-342.

“Introduction: ‘We’re All Infected,’” in “We’re All Infected”: Essays on AMC’s The Walking Dead and the Fate of the Human, edited by Dawn Keetley (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014), 3-25.

“Human Choice and Zombie Consciousness,” in “We’re All Infected”: Essays on AMC’s The Walking Dead and the Fate of the Human, edited by Dawn Keetley (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014), 156-72.

“Stillborn: The Entropic Gothic of FX’s American Horror Story,” Gothic Studies 15.2 (November 2013): 89-107. 

“The Injuries of Reading: Jesse Pomeroy and the Dire Effects of Dime Novels,” Journal of American Studies 47.3 (August 2013): 673-97. http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0021875812001405

“Zombie Evolution: Stephen King’s Cell, George Romero’s Diary of the Dead, and the Future of the Human,” Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture 11.2 (Fall 2012). http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/fall_2012/keetley.htm.

“Unruly Bodies: The Politics of Sex in Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö’s Martin Beck Series,” Clues: A Journal of Detection 30.1 (2012): 54-64.

“Bodies and Morals: Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” and Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things,” Literature/Film Quarterly 38.1 (2010): 1-13.

“From Anger to Jealousy: Explaining Domestic Homicide in Antebellum America,” Journal of Social History 42.2 (Winter 2008): 269-97.

“Pregnant Women and Envious Men in ‘Morella,’ ‘Berenice,’ ‘Ligeia,’ and ‘The Fall of the House of Usher,’” Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism 38.1-2 (2005; date of actually publication of volume, 2007): 1-16.

“Homicidal Envy:  The Case of Richard Henry Dana, Sr.,’s Paul Felton,” Early American Literature 41.2 (2006): 273-304.

“Mothers and Others:  The Turn of the Screw and Anxieties over Substitute Mothers,” in Approaches to Teaching “Daisy Miller” and “The Turn of the Screw,” ed. Pete Beidler and Kim Reed (New York:  MLA, 2005): 143-50.

“’I done something wrong’:  Rage and Self-Beratement in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘A Good Man Is Hard To Find,’” in “On the Subject of the Feminist Business”:  Re-Reading Flannery O’Connor, ed.  Teresa Caruso (New York:  Peter Lang, 2004): 74-93.

“A Husband’s Jealousy: Antebellum Murder Trials and Caroline Lee Hentz’s Ernest Linwood,” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 19 (2002):  26-34.

“’Something to make a story about’: Glaspell’s ‘A Jury of Her Peers’ and Rethinking Literature’s Lessons for the Law,” REAL:  Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 18 (2002):  335-355.  A special issue on Law and Literature edited by Brook Thomas.  Reprinted in Short Story Criticism, vol 132 (Gale, 2010).

“The Ungendered Terrain of Good Health: Mary Gove Nichol’s Rewriting of a Diseased Concept of Spheres,” in Revitalizing the Canon: Separate Spheres No More, ed. Monika Elbert (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2000), 117-42.

“Victim and Victimizer: Female Fiends and Unease over Marriage in Antebellum Sensation Fiction,” American Quarterly 51.2 (1999): 344-84.

“Beautiful Poisoners: Hawthorne’s ‘Rappaccini’s Daughter,’ Hannah Kinney’s 1840 Murder Trial, and the Problem of Criminal Responsibility” Emerson Society Quarterly 44 (1998):  125-159. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism, ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 176 (New York: Gale-Cengage, 2013), 146-161.

“Law and Order,” in Prime Time Law: Fictional Television as Legal Narrative, ed. Robert Jarvis and Paul Joseph (Durham: Carolina Academia Press, 1998):  33-53.

“The Power of ‘Personification’: Actress Anna Cora Mowatt and the Literature of Women’s Public Performance in Antebellum America” American Transcendental Quarterly 10 (1996):  187-200.

“Racial Conviction, Racial Confusion: Indeterminate Identities in Slave Narratives and Southern Courts,” a/b:  Auto/Biography Studies 10 (1995):  1-20.

“Unsettling the Frontier: Gender and Racial Identity in Caroline Kirkland’s A New Home, Who’ll Follow? and Forest Life” Legacy:  A Journal of American Women Writers 12 (1995):  17-37.

Website

Horror Homeroom, founded with Elizabeth Erwin and Gwendolyn Hoffman, March 2015, for which I write (at least) weekly posts.http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/

Popular Media

“The Train and the Nonhuman in Halloween.” In Media Res: A Media Commons Project, October 30, 2018. http://mediacommons.org/imr/content/train-and-nonhuman-halloween.

“Literature and Social Justice in Lehigh University’s English Department,” by Seth Moglen, Dawn Keetley, and Kate Crassons, in a special issue of Peer Review, Civic Learning in the Major by Design, January 2018. https://www.aacu.org/peerreview/2017/Fall/Lehigh.

“How to Break a Person: Is ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Examining Slavery?” PopMatters, October 25, 2016 http://www.popmatters.com/feature/how-to-break-a-person-is-the-walking-dead-examining-slavery/

“Leigh Janiak’s Honeymoon as Feminist Horror,” BitchFlicks, April 6, 2016 http://www.btchflcks.com/2016/04/lee-janiaks-honeymoon-as-feminist-horror.html#.VwYtjry6960

“The Walking Dead and the Rise of Donald Trump,” PopMatters, March 17, 2016 http://www.popmatters.com/feature/the-walking-dead-and-the-rise-of-donald-trump/

“The Shocking Attractions of American Horror Story: Coven,” FlowTV 19.08 (March 2014) http://flowtv.org/2014/03/the-shocking-attractions-of-american-horror-story-coven/

“Has The Walking Dead Killed the White Patriarchy?,” FlowTV 19.03 (December 2013) http://flowtv.org/2013/12/has-the-walking-dead-killed-the-white-patriarchy/

“Defending Dexter,” FlowTV 18.08 (October 2013). http://flowtv.org/2013/10/defending-dexter/

 

Book Reviews

Review of Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World, by Dahlia Schweitzer, Film Quarterly 71.4 (2018): 94-95.

Review of The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature, ed. by Monica Gagliano, John C. Ryan, and Patricia Vieira, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 24.3 (2017):599-601.

Review of Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange, by Adam Scovell, Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies 16 (Autumn 2017): 134-138.

Review of Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade, ed. by Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Charlie Ellbé, and Kristopher Woofter, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 28.1 (2017): 147-50.

Review of Poisonous Muse: The Female Poisoner and the Framing of Popular Authorship in Jacksonian America, by Sara L. Crosby, American Literary History Online Review, Series IX, winter 2017, https://academic.oup.com/alh/pages/alh_review_series_9

“Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’ is No Less Shocking in This Graphic Adaptation,” PopMatters, November 9, 2016. http://www.popmatters.com/review/shirley-jacksons-the-lottery-by-miles-hyman/

“On Very Visceral Mysteries: ‘The Woman in Cabin 10,’” by Ruth Ware, PopMatters, September 21, 2016.http://www.popmatters.com/column/on-very-visceral-mysteries-the-woman-in-cabin-10/

“‘The Age of Lovecraft,’ by Carl Sederholm and Jeffrey Weinstock, Wonderfully Elucidates the Central Dilemma Posed by Lovecraft,” PopMatters, July 21, 2016. http://www.popmatters.com/review/the-age-of-lovecraft-wonderfully-elucidates-the-central-dilemma-posed-by-lo/

Review of To See the Saw Movies: Essays on Torture Porn and Post-9/11 Horror, edited by James Aston and John Walliss, Journal of American Studies 48.3 (August 2014): E92.

Review of Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema, by Kevin J. Wetmore, The Journal of Popular Culture 46 (2013): 455-457.

“The Political Background to Murder,” review of American Homicide, by Randoph Roth, The Review of Politics 73 (2011):1-4.

Review of Dangerous to Know: Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic, by Susan Branson, American Studies 50.1/2 (2010):154-55.

Review of The Kentucky Tragedy: A Story of Conflict and Change in Antebellum America, by Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.; The Spectacle of Death: Populist Literary Responses to American Capital Cases, by Kristin Boudreau; Victory of Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil War, and American Literature, 1852-1867, by Deak Nabers, American Literature, 79 (2007): 823-26.

Review of The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson’s Boston, by Albert J. von Frank, American Studies 40 (1999):  136-38.

Review of Lonesome Land, by B. M. Bower, Wynema: A Child of the Forest, by S. Alice Callahan, and Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works, by Susan K. George, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 16 (1999):  206-9.

Review of Walt Whitman: A Gay Life, by Gary Schmidgall, North Carolina Review of Books, Spring 1998, 20, 29.

Review of Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace: New England Crime Literature and the Origins of American Popular Culture, 1674-1860, by Daniel A. Cohen, American Studies 37 (1996):  190-2.

Review of Dusky Maidens: The Odyssey of the Early Black Dramatic Actress, by Jo A. Tanner, and Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790-1870, by Faye E. Dudden, National Women’s Studies Association Journal 7 (1995):  164-67.

Review of Autobiographics:  A Feminist Theory of Women’s Self-Representation, by Leigh Gilmore, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 10 (1995):  145-48.