Select Publications

Books
Father and Son:  Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis and the British Novel Since 1950.  Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
  • “Father and Son will be important to specialists in the field as well as to students of the twentieth-century novel generally. It provides the only extended treatment of a unique literary genealogy.” — James Diedrick, author of Understanding Martin Amis
  • “Keulks’ book is holding and absorbing, filled with excellently shrewd and steady analysis of selected novels, essays and interviews set in the context of the status and future of the realistic novel, the transition from modernism to postmodernism, and the existential condition of post-World War II life.” — Dale Salwak, author of Kingsley Amis: Modern Novelist and Kingsley Amis: In Life and Letters
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Martin Amis:  Postmodernism and Beyond.  Editor and intro.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
  • The first book of original essays published on Amis, this edited collection features the work of twelve scholars from six different countries.
  • “This collection represents a real advance in Martin Amis studies. Twelve informed and exciting essays by an international range of leading Amis scholars and critics explore his novels and literary journalism from a wide variety of aspects and provide a rich source of fresh insights and perspectives. In a theoretically sophisticated but accessible way, they examine the structure, language and significance of his work and its controversial engagements with postmodernity, class, gender and Holocaust. The collection also contains an invaluable bibliography of Amis’s prolific nonfiction. This book is essential reading for all those interested in Amis and contemporary writing.” — Nicolas Tredell, editor of The Fiction of Martin Amis
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The Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis.  Editor and intro.  Cambridge University Press, 2026.
  • This book is under contract with essays due in summer 2025 and an expected publication date scheduled for early 2026.
  • International in scope, this collection will feature the work of fourteen scholars from five different countries, ranging from established experts to new scholars of Amis’s work.
Chapters
  • “Dublin’s Icon Walk and the Artful Marketing of Irish Culture.”  Advertising and Society.  Ed. Tiara K. Good.  Cognella, forthcoming.
  • “‘No less than we deserve’: the Traditional Roots of the Amises’ Contemporary Satires.” Critical Engagements 3.2 (winter 2010): 35-51.
  • “‘Preferring the composite darkness’: Trauma Theory and Narration in The Ground Beneath Her Feet and Shalimar the Clown.” Rushdie the Novelist: from Grimus to The Enchantress of Florence. Ed. Meenakshi Bharat. Pencraft International, 2008. 247-63.
  • “Winterson’s Recent Work: Navigating Realism and Postmodernism.” Jeanette Winterson: A Contemporary Critical Guide. Ed. Sonya Andermahr. Continuum, 2007. 146-62.
  • “New York, Los Angeles, and Other Toxicities: Revisiting Postmodernism in Rushdie’s Fury and Shalimar the Clown.” The Mourning After: Attending the Wake of Postmodernism. Eds. Neil Brooks and Josh Toth. Rodopi, 2007. 143-68. Google Books Preview: click here.
  • “W(h)ither Postmodernism: Late Amis.” Martin Amis: Postmodernism and Beyond. Palgrave, 2006. 158-79.
Creative Work
  • Flight [novel]. 80,000 word completed manuscript (currently unpublished).
  • “Trappists” and “Houdini” [poems]. The Antigonish Review 153 (Summer 2008): 76-79.
  • “Retreating” [poem]. The Merton Journal 15.1 (Easter 2008): 23-24.
  • “The Shower” [poem]. The Merton Journal 10.2 (Advent 2003): 24-26.