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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:



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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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! 

(Stand: 20.06.2024)  | 
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