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 :

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

• Burns, Lorna & Muth, Katie (2019). World Literature and Dissent. Routledge.

Journal Article

• Muth, Katie (2019). The grammars of the system: Thomas Pynchon at Boeing. Textual Practice 33(3): 473.
• Muth, Katie R. (2011). Postmodern Fiction as Poststructuralist Theory: Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School. Narrative 19(1): 86.