Staff profile

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.

• 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:

Book review

• Muth, K. (2016). Rev. of Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes (eds.), William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2015). Journal of American Studies, 50(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021875815002479
• Muth, K. (2015). Rev. of Stefano Ercolino, The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon's 'Gravity's Rainbow' to Roberto Bolano's '2666' (New York; London; New Delhi; Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2014). Forum for Modern Language Studies, 51(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqv013
• Muth, K. (2015). Rev. of Min Hyoung Song, The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013). Forum for Modern Language Studies, 51(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqv016

Chapter in book

• 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
• Muth, K. (2019). The problem of dissent. In World Literature and Dissent. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203710302-3
• Muth, K. (2019). Nonfiction. In Thomas Pynchon in Context. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108683784.004
• Muth, K. (2019). Digital Readings. In The New Pynchon Studies. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108608916.011
• Muth, K. (2017). Mass Media. In American Literature in Transition, 1950–1960. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108289542.003

Edited book

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

Journal Article

• Muth, K. (2019). The grammars of the system: Thomas Pynchon at Boeing. Textual Practice, 33(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2019.1580514
• Muth, K. R. (2011). Postmodern Fiction as Poststructuralist Theory: Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School. Narrative (Columbus, Ohio. Online), 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1353/nar.2011.0000