Gavin Keulks

Gavin Keulks

Professor of literature and film at Western Oregon University, specializing in twentieth-century English and Irish fiction of the postwar period. Editor of The Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis and administrator of the Martin Amis Web. I also accept external program review contracts for honors programs and English departments.

Gavin Keulks reading aloud from a manuscript to a seated room

Monographs and Edited Collections

Currently Working On

  1. 01

    Flight

    My first novel · Under agent review

    Literary Fiction manuscript, complete at 80,000 words, and perhaps the most meaningful project I have completed.

    Creative Work
  2. 02

    Irish Traumatic Spaces

    My next scholarly monograph · In progress

    On the reclamation of traumatic spaces in Ireland. Prospective chapters on Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes, Ghost Estates, Mass Paths, Hedge Schools, and Famine Walls, Roads, and Graveyards.

    Fieldwork
  3. 03

    The Martin Amis Web

    Web administration

    The authoritative digital archive for one of England’s most important contemporary writers. Designated a site of scholarly significance by the British Library and archived every six months as part of their UK Web Archive Project.

    Digital Work