Newcastle University

Introduction

Office Hours: Monday 1-3, Tuesday 2-3

Qualifications

PhD English, University of Alberta
Masters in Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta
MA English, McGill University
BA (Drama and Theatre), McGill University

Previous Positions

Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Alberta (2008-2011)

Memberships

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
Modernist Studies Association
North American Victorian Studies Association
Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada

Languages

English
French

Research Interests

My research interests include British and American print culture of the long fin-de-siecle (1870-1930). Particular interests include: Aestheticism and Decadence, the relationship between high and popular culture, magazines in literary and cultural history, and collectors and the role of collectors and institutions as shapers and agtekeepers of cultural history. My publications have centred on Decadence, fin-de-siecle writers, and American little magazines of the 1890s.

Current Work

I am currently completing a monograph on American little magazines of the 1890s which is under contract with the University of Tornoto Press in its Book and Print Culture series. I am also now working on a monograph on Carl Van Vechten, critic of music, dance, theatre, and literature; novelist; portrait photographer; unofficial literary agent; and patron of the arts. The monograph explores Van Vechten's long overlookedbut important role in shaping Modernism in America in the first half of the twentieth century.

Funding

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Standard Research Grant (2008-2011) $52, 600
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Fellowship (2004-2005)
SSHRC Post-doctoral Fellowship (2002-2004)

Undergraduate Teaching

SEMESTER I
SEL 1003 Introduction to Literary Studies I
SEL 2208 Independent Research Project I
SEL 3330 Victorians and Moderns

SEMESTER II
SEL 1023 Transformations
SEL 2204 Victorian Passions
SEL 2210 Independent Research Project II

Postgraduate Teaching

I welcome applications from research students interested in Aestheticism and Decadence; little magazines; late-Victorian and Modernist "high" and popular print culture; 19th and early 20th-century transatlantic literary networks; and publishing history.

• Macleod K. Making It New, Old School: Carl Van Vechten and Decadent Modernism. Symbiosis 2012, Spring 2012, 7000 words. Submitted.
• MacLeod K. The First Appearance of Jack London's Bald-Face (1900). Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 2010, 104(3), 347-352.
• MacLeod K. M. P. Shiel and the Love of Pubescent Girls: The Other Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name. English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 2008,51 4 355-380.
• MacLeod K. The Fine Art of Cheap Print: Turn-of-the-Century American Little Magazines. In:Ann Ardis and Patrick Collier, ed. Transatlantic Print Culture 1880-1940: Emerging Media, Emerging Modernisms.Basingstoke, UK:Palgrave MacMillan,2008, pp. 182-198.
• MacLeod K, Badley J. Women, Writing, and Reading. 2007.University of Alberta:Bruce Peel Special Collections Library,75.
• MacLeod K. ‘Art for America’s Sake’: Decadence and the Making of American Literary Culture in the Little Magazines of the 1890s.. Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 2006,31 309-339.
• MacLeod K. Fictions of British Decadence: High Art, Popular Literature and the fin de siècle. Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan,2006.
• MacLeod K. Wormwood, by Marie Corelli. 2004.Peterborough, ON:Broadview Press.
• MacLeod K. The "Librarian's Dream-Prince": Carl Van Vechten and America's Modernist Cultural Archives Industry. Llibraries & the Cultural Record 2011, 46(4), 360-387.