M. Keith Booker Source Confirmed

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Professor

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

faculty

15 h-index 156 pubs 880 cited

Research Areas

Climate Change and Literature Posthumanism in Literature Environmental Literature Speculative Fiction Analysis American Cinema Studies Media Studies and Communication Literary Theory and Criticism

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M. Keith Booker's research examines contemporary literature, with a particular focus on themes of environmental change, posthumanism, and societal structures. His publications analyze how authors engage with these complex issues, often through the lens of speculative fiction and horror genres. Booker investigates the intersections of climate change, human exceptionalism, and ecological anxiety in works like Paolo Bacigalupi's *The Windup Girl* and David Cronenberg's *Crimes of the Future*. He also explores the political dimensions of postmodernism and its representation in literature, drawing on theorists such as Bakhtin and Jameson. Additionally, Booker's scholarship addresses the persistence of patriarchal structures and the influence of historical contexts in films and literature, including analyses of *The Witch* and *The Love Witch*. His work demonstrates a consistent engagement with the ways literature reflects and critiques societal anxieties and future possibilities. Booker holds an h-index of 15 and has authored 156 publications with 880 citations.

Metrics

h-index: 15
Publications: 156
Citations: 880

Selected Publications

Strange Fruit: Menippean Laughter and the Gothic Return of the Past in Percival Everett’s <i>The Trees</i> (2025) DOI
Don’t Worry Darling: Critiquing the nostalgic cultural logic of late patriarchy (2025) DOI
Renfield: The Vampire’s Undying Assistant (2024) DOI
Robert Eggers’s The Lighthouse: Art horror, alienated labour and capitalist routinization (2024) DOI
Patriarchy Then and Now—With a Twist: The Postmodern Horror of Alex Garland’s Men (2024) DOI
Renfield: The Vampire’s Undying Assistant (2023) DOI
Ben Wheatley’s <i>In the Earth</i> (2021): Folk Horror as Climate Change Warning (2023) DOI
Lost in the funhouse: Allegorical horror and cognitive mapping in Jordan Peele’s Us (2021) DOI