Staff profile
Dr Katie Muth
Assistant Professor (Teaching), Digital Humanities and Modern Literature

Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
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Assistant Professor (Teaching), 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 such as 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.
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
Chapter in book
- Muth, Katie (2023). Postmodernism and Its Discontents, Or, The Cultural Logic of Don DeLillo. In Don DeLillo in Context. Jesse Kavadlo Cambridge University Press. 179.
- Muth, Katie (2019). Digital Readings. In The New Pynchon Studies. Cambridge University Press. 175.
- Muth, Katie (2019). The problem of dissent. In World Literature and Dissent. Routledge. 30.
- Muth, Katie (2019). Nonfiction. In Thomas Pynchon in Context. Cambridge University Press. 23.
- Muth, Katie (2017). Mass Media. In American Literature in Transition, 1950–1960. Cambridge University Press. 31.
Edited book
Journal Article