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Michaela Keck

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Michaela Keck

American literature and culture: 

  • women's writing
  • visual culture and art history
  • transcendentalism and the American Renaissance
  • ecocritical studies and the environmental humanities
  • (classical) myth and its (feminist) reception
  • African American literature
  • Margaret Atwood and her writings

www.staff.uni-oldenburg.de/michaela.keck/

Publikationen

1. Monographs:



2. Journal Articles:

  • Forthcoming: "A Shared Passion for Nonsense: Laura Richards and Margaret Atwood." European Journal of American Studies
  • "The Artpolitics of the Powerless in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad." Margaret Atwood Studies 17 (2024): 61-80. https://atwoodsociety.org/volume-17-2024-table-of-contents/.
  • "Psyche and Pygmalion: The Heart's Desires Revised in Louisa May Alcott's A Marble Woman." European Journal of American Studies 17.3 (2022). Web. https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.18739.
  • "Women's Complicity, Resistance, and Moral Agency: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments." Gender Forum 82 (2022): 12-33. Web. http://genderforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/03_Issue_Keck_Womens-Complicity-Resistance-and-Moral-Agency_Proof.pdf.
  • "Plastic (in) Paradise: Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rain Forest." IAFOR Journal for Literature & Librarianship 10.1 (2021): 26-40. Web. https://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-literature-and-librarianship/volume-10-issue-1/article-1/.
  • "Indian Education for All on Montana's Flathead Reservation." Academia Letters (March 2021). Web. https://www.academia.edu/45610431/Indian_Education_for_All_on_Montanas_Flathead_Reservation
  • "Paradise Retold: Revisionist Mythmaking in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy." Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment  9.2 (Autumn 2018): 23-40. http://ecozona.eu/issue/view/152/showToc
  • "Marginocentricity and cosmopolitan interconnections of black radical thought in Arna Bontemps's Black Thunder." Atlantic Studies 14.1 (2017): 37-50. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FUabP9Aw38T5sA8CMT2Q/full
  • "Culture-Crossing in Madison Smartt Bell's Haitian Trilogy and Neo-Captivity Narrative." Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology 12.1 (2015): 115-28.
  • "Complicating the Reading of Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting: Albert Bierstadt’s Western Visions, Aesthetics, and Sociology." Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 39.2 (September 2013): 139-161.
  • "Female Self-Possession and Material Feminism in Elizabeth Stoddard's 'A Study for a Heroine' (1885)." Sun Yat-sen Journal of the Humanities 33 (July 2012): 133-150.
  • "Mythology and Mythography in Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard’s Two Men." Sun Yat-sen Journal of the Humanities 30 (January 2011): 185-216.
  • “‘Murder in the Dark’: Lying Games, or Margaret Atwood’s Ioci.” Margaret Atwood Studies 2.2 (May 2009): 3-14.
  • “‘Kindred Spirits’ in Romantic Walks: Durand’s Kindred Spirits Compared to Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Mist.” Amerikastudien 52.1 (June 2007): 35-46.



3. Book Chapters & Essays:

  • Forthcoming: "And the Story Lives On: Fred Fordham's Graphic Novel Adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird." Writing, Retelling, and Cricitally Reading Children's and Young Adult Tales. Ed. Bernard Montoneri. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
  • Black Time Travel, Chronotopicity, and the Reparative Desire for Beauty in Pauline E. Hopkins's Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self." In: Time Travel in World Literature and Cinema. Ed. Bernard Montoneri. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 171-201.
  • "With Second Sight and Afro-pessimism: The Im/Possibility of Black Utopia in Martin R. Delany's Blake; or, The Huts of America." Science Fiction and Anticipation: Utopias, Dystopias and Time Travel. Ed. Bernard Montoneri. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. 67-89.
  • "Of Birds and Men: Lessons from Mark Cocker's Crow Country." Multispecies Futures: New Approaches to Teaching Human-Animal Studies. Eds. Maria Moss, Micha Gerrit Philipp Edlich, and Andreas Hübner. Neofelis, 2022. 115-30. https://neofelis-verlag.de/verlagsprogramm/wissenschaft/animal-studies/1045/multispecies-futures?c=358.
  • "Aquatic Insights from Roger Deakin's Waterlog." Signs of Water: Community Perspectives on Water, Responsibility, and Hope. Eds. Robert Boschman and Sonya L. Jakubec. Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary Press, February 2022.  37-58. (University of Calgary Open Access Books) 
  • "Paradoxien von Authentizität: Kunstauthentizität und Unmittelbarkeit in der Bildwahrnehmung bei Edward Hopper und seiner Kunst." Authentizität transversal: Multiperspektivische Betrachtungen von 'Echtheit'. Ed. Berit Callsen. Frank und Timme, 2021. 55-73.
  • "Prophesy and Racial Trauma in the Black Freedom Struggle: Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi." Life Mapping as Cultural Legacy. Eds. I-Chun Wang and Mary Theis. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021. 90-105. https://books.google.de/books?id=V5QYEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA90&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false.
  • "Uncanny New Worlds in Harriet Prescott Spofford's "D'Outre Mort" and "The Black Bess." Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities. Eds. Julius Greve und Florian Zappe. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 25-40.
  • "Lydia Maria Child: Hobomok (1824)." Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth-Century. Ed. Christine Gerhardt. De Gruyter Series Handbooks of English and American Studies, vol. 7. Eds. Martin Middeke, Gabriele Rippl, Hubert Zapf. De Gruyter, 2018. 183-200.
  • "Teacher Bye Bye: Memories of Teaching Literature in Taiwan." Education and EFL in Taiwan: Policy and Practice. Ed. Paul W. Mathews. Warrior Publishers, Australia. 2017. 188-97.
  • "Of Marble Women and Sleeping Nymphs: Louisa May Alcott's A Modern Mephistopheles." Translating Myth. Eds. Ben Pestell, Pietra Palazzolo, and Leon Burnett. Oxford: Legenda, 2016. 120-36.
  • "'Maenad-in-Motion': Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Reconfiguration of the Dionysius Cult in A New-England Tale (1822)." Proceedings of the 2nd International Aksit Gögtürk Conference: Myths Revisited. Istanbul: Diltra, 2014. 53-66.
  • “Notions of Love in Louisa May Alcott’s A Modern Mephistopheles.” Emotions in Literature. Eds. An, Sonjae and Francis So. Seoul: National Korean University Press, 2010. 191-215.
  • "Discourses in Antebellum American Art: Frederic Edwin Church’s Natural Bridge, Virginia in Dialogue with Robert Scott Duncanson’s Uncle Tom and Little Eva.” An Interpretive Turn: Art, Literature, and Culture in the 19th and 20th Century. Eds. Yuan, Heh-hsiang and Shu-fang Lai. Taipei: Bookman, 2010. 41-68.
  • “Changing Iconologies in Twentieth-Century Cinema: Three Versions of Alcott’s Little Women.” Reading Films: Proceedings of the 2009 Providence University English Festival. Ed. Haseltine, Patricia. Taipei: Providence University, 2009. 12-31.
  • “Thoreau’s Walden and the American Dream: Challenge or Myth?” Bloom’s Literary Themes: The American Dream. Eds. Bloom, Harold and Blake Hobby. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2009. 213-23.
  • “Der Spaziergang in der Neuen Welt: Henry David Thoreaus ‘Art of Walking.’” Kopflandschaften–Landschaftsgänge. Kulturgeschichte und Poetik des Spaziergangs. Eds. Gellhaus, Axel, Christian Moser and Helmut J. Schneider. Cologne: Böhlau, 2007. 201-17.
  • “‘The Abbot’s Ghost’–Alcott’s Struggle for Virtuous Womanhood.” Ghosts, Stories, Histories: Ghost Stories and Alternative Histories. Ed. Sladja Blazan. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. 21-31.



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5. Internet Contributions / Teaching & Research:



6. Current Research: 
I am presently working on two different projects. The one has to do with chronotopicity, identity, and modernism in the novel The Whole Family (1908), a novel written jointly by 12 authors, including William Dean Howells, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Elizabeth Jordan, Henry James, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and others. 

The other project is dedicated to contributions to a new encyclopedia on theories on myth. I am delighted and thrilled that feminist revisionist mythmaking, „Classica Africana,” and Toni Morrison will all be included in this new encyclopedia! 

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