Erin Keating

Dr Erin Keating is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba. Her primary research focuses on the popular genres of 17th-century secret history and the theatre through the lenses of print culture, celebrity studies, and affect theory. She has published articles in this field on the relationships between genre, audience, and affect in both secret history and the Restoration theatre, on the role of gossip and popular print on Charles II's public persona, and on gatekeeping and masculinity in early coffeehouses in England. She also researches and teaches classes in contemporary fantasy genres, particularly epic fantasy and superhero narratives and has published on Alan Moore's and Dave Gibbon's comic Watchmen.