Keli Masten, PhD

Keli Masten, PhD

Assistant Professor of General Education
Writing Center Director
English, Literature, and World Languages
Phone: (231) 591-2535
Email: [email protected]

Education

• MA, Western Michigan University, Practice of Teaching
• BA, Western Michigan University, English: Creative Writing
• Associate of Arts, Grand Rapids Community College

Publications and Intellectual Contributions

• 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

Presentations

• 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).