Keli Masten, PhD

Assistant professor of General Education
Wirting Center Coordinator
General Education
Phone: (231) 591-2535
Email: [email protected]

Education

Journal Article
Masten, K. (2024). "This Guy is Queer": Words of Power in The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep," Crime Fiction Studies. 5 (2). pp. 151-165. Edinburgh University Press. https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/cfs
Book Chapter
Masten, K. (2024). "Violet Strange: Gothic Girl Detective," Rethinking Gothic Transgressions of Gender and Sexuality. pp. 79-93. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Rethinking-Gothic-Transgressions-of-Gender-and-Sexuality-New-Directions/Faber-Munderlein/p/book/9781032451381#
Book
Masten, K. (2023). "Doing the Thing: Surviving and Thriving in College Writing," Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt Publishing. https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/doing-thing-surviving-and-thriving-college-writing

Paper
Masten, K. (Author & Presenter), Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, “The Horror of Everyday Things in Anna Katharine Green’s That Affair Next Door,” Midwest Modern Language Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, (November 14, 2025).
Paper
Masten, K. (Author & Presenter), Modern Language Association Conference, "Death Had Often Occurred There": Inherited Transgression in Anna Katharine Green," Modern Language Association, New Orleans, LA, (January 2025).
Paper
Masten, K. (Author & Presenter), Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, "The Unusual Horror of the Thing": Poe’s Gothic Detective," Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, (November 2024).
Paper
Masten, K. (Author & Presenter), Captivating Criminality 10, “The Femmes Fatales of Hammett and Chandler: Women Who Kill for Reasons.” International Crime Fiction Association, Bath, England, (September 1, 2023).