M. Keith Booker

James E. and Ellen Wadley Roper Professor of English
(Ph.D. University of Florida)
Director of the Program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies

Office: KIMP 234
Phone: (479)575-4301
kbooker@uark.edu

Teaching Interests:

Science Fiction, Popular Culture, Film and Television Studies, Postcolonial Literature, Literature of the Left, Modern American Literature, Modern British Literature, Literary Theory.

Selected Publications:

May Contain Graphic Material: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Film (Praeger, 2007); Postmodern Hollywood: What’s New in Film and Why It Makes Us Feel So Strange (Praeger, 2007); From Box Office to Ballot Box: The American Political Film (Praeger, 2007); Drawn to Television: Prime-Time Animated Series from The Flintstones to Family Guy (Praeger, 2006); Alternate Americas: Science Fiction Film and American Culture (Praeger, 2006);The Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics (editor) (Greenwood, 2005). Science Fiction Television (Praeger, 2004); The Chinua Achebe Encyclopedia (editor, Greenwood, 2003); The Post-Utopian Imagination: American Culture in the Long 1950s (Greenwood, 2002); Strange TV: Innovative Television Series from “The Twilight Zone” to “The X-Files” (Greenwood, 2002); Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War: American Science Fiction in Novel and Film, 1946-1964 (Greenwood, 2001); The Caribbean Novel in English: An Introduction (Co-authored with Dubravka Juraga, Heinemann, 2000); "Ulysses,”Capitalism, and Colonialism: Reading Joyce after the Cold War" (Greenwood, 2000); Film and the American Left: A Research Guide (Greenwood, 1999); The Modern American Novel of the Left: A Research Guide (Greenwood, 1999); Critical Essays on Salman Rushdie (editor, G.K. Hall, 1999), The Modern British Novel of the Left: A Research Guide (Greenwood, 1998); The African Novel in English: An Introduction (Heinemann, 1998); Colonial Power, Colonial Texts: India in the Modern British Novel (Michigan, 1997); A Practical Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism (Longman, 1996); Joyce, Bakhtin, and the Literary Tradition: Toward a Comparative Cultural Poetics (Michigan, 1996).