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Last published 2026
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M. Keith Booker

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Professor

University of Arkansas primary UA Little Rock

Also affiliated: University of Florida (1987); Arab Open University (2018)

15 h-index 177 pubs 869 cited

Research Areas

Biomedical Subjects

  • Surgical Procedures, Operative
  • Humans

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OverviewAI-generated summary

M. Keith Booker is a Professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. His scholarly work primarily focuses on literary criticism and theory, with a particular emphasis on dystopian literature, science fiction, and the analysis of comics and graphic novels. Booker has authored several influential books and encyclopedias within these fields, contributing significantly to the academic understanding of these genres and their cultural impact. His research explores themes of subversion, transgression, and the carnivalesque in modern literature. Metrics indicate a substantial body of work, with 154 total publications and 860 citations, reflected in an h-index of 15.

Metrics

  • h-index: 15
  • Publications: 177
  • Citations: 869

Positions

  • Professor publications 1988–2026
    University of Arkansas at Fayetteville English ORCID

Selected Publications

  • “In the Clutches of a Vampire”: Gothic Romance, Pastiche, and the Persistence of Patriarchy in Anna Biller’s Bluebeard’s Castle (2026)
    American Gothic Studies DOI OpenAlex
  • Environmental Change and Revenge (2025)
    DOI OpenAlex
  • Post-Black, Post-Huck, and Postmodern: The Dialogic Complexity of Percival Everett’s James (2024) (2025)
    Orbit A Journal of American Literature 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Strange Fruit: Menippean Laughter and the Gothic Return of the Past in Percival Everett’s The Trees (2025)
    American Gothic Studies 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Don’t Worry Darling: Critiquing the nostalgic cultural logic of late patriarchy (2025)
    European Journal of American Culture 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Environmental Change and Revenge (2025)
    DOI OpenAlex
  • Renfield: The Vampire’s Undying Assistant (2024)
    DOI OpenAlex
  • Robert Eggers’s The Lighthouse: Art horror, alienated labour and capitalist routinization (2024)
    Horror Studies DOI OpenAlex
  • Patriarchy Then and Now—With a Twist: The Postmodern Horror of Alex Garland’s Men (2024)
    Palgrave gothic DOI OpenAlex
  • Renfield: The Vampire’s Undying Assistant (2023)
    DOI OpenAlex
  • Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth (2021): Folk Horror as Climate Change Warning (2023)
    Green Letters DOI OpenAlex

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