Erin Keating

• ENGL 2190 - Superheroes and the Critique of Individualism
• ENGL 3620 - Reading the Coffeehouse: Politics, Print, and Periodicals in the Restoration and 18th Century
• ENGL 3800 - Celebrity, Fan Culture, and the Parasocial
• ENGL 3920 - Expanding Epic Fantasy
• ENGL 4630/7860 - Queer Kinship in Epic Fantasy and its Fandoms
• ENGL 4630/7940 - Scandal, Sex, and Satire: Restoration and 18th-Century Secret History

Erin Keating has been teaching at the University of Manitoba since 2013 and is the Co-Editor of the journal Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture. Her varied teaching and research interests are connected by her fascination with audience and reception studies and the ways that popular culture reflects, resists, and normalizes competing ideologies. 

• PhD (English), Simon Fraser University, 2012
• MA (English), Concordia University, 2006
• BA (English and Philosophy), Wilfrid Laurier University, 1998

Research interests

• Restoration prose and theatre
• Secret history
• Affect theory
• Fantasy (fiction, RPGs, television, and film)
• Celebrity studies

Research affiliations/groups

• Researcher, Women and the Early Novel in English: The European Context (1621-1699)

• "Sébastien Brémond’s Paratexts: Authorship, Genre, and Masculinity.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 36, no. 3, 2024, pp. 439-58.
• “Masculinity and Gatekeeping in Depictions of the Restoration Coffeehouse.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, vol. 62, no. 3-4, 2021, pp. 385-404.
• “The Role of Manuscript Newsletters in Charles II’s Performance of Power.” Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture 1660-1700, vol. 41, no. 2, 2017, pp. 33-51.
• “Secret History and Restoration Drama.” The Secret History of Literature, 1660-1820, eds. Rebecca Bullard and Rachel Carnell, Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 46-59.
• “Interrupting Pleasure: Ideology and Affect in Delarivier Manley’s The New Atalantis.” New Perspectives on Delarivier Manley and Eighteenth-Century Literature: Power, Sex, and Text, eds. Aleksondra Hultquist and Elizabeth J. Mathews, Routledge, 2017, pp. 75-91.
• “In the Bedroom of the King: Affective Politics in the Restoration Secret History.” Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, vol. 15, no. 2, 2015, pp. 58-82.
• “The Female Link: Citation and Continuity in Watchmen.” Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 45, no. 6, 2012, pp. 1266-1288.

• Lakshmisree Shaji Marar, MA Critical Thesis, “Revisionary Superheroes and Speculative Romance: Disidentificatory tactics of South Asian representation and fandom in Western popular culture.” 2025. Keywords: Ms. Marvel, Bridgerton, fan studies and race, disidentification.
• Ariella Gunn, MA Critical Thesis, “Representations of Restrictive Gender Ideologies in Restoration Theatre & Fiction.” 2024. Keywords: Aphra Behn, Sébastien Brémond, William Wycherley, gender studies, libertinism 
  
   

• 2021 - Merit Award for Service, University of Manitoba
• 2020 - Olive Beatrice Stanton Award for Excellence in Teaching
• 2018 - Excellence in Teaching Award, New Faculty Category, Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba