Karen Joan Kohoutek Published Essay in Anthology

Karen Joan Kohoutek has published an essay in the anthology Black Panther and Philosophy: What Can Wakanda Offer the World?, from The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series. The essay, “’It’s Time They Knew the Truth About Us! We’re Warriors!’: Black Panther and the Black Panther Party,” deals with ways the themes of the Marvel film reflect the concerns of […]

Kohoutek publishes essay in literary journal

MSUM staff member Karen Joan Kohoutek has published an essay in the peer-reviewed literary journal “The Dark Man: Journal of Robert E. Howard and Pulp Studies” (volume 11.1). The essay, “More Than Meets the Eye,” focuses on the female protagonists found in several of Howard’s Conan the Barbarian stories. In addition to being a technician at the Livingston Lord Library, […]

Kohoutek publishes essay in ‘Wormwood’

Dragon staff member Karen Joan Kohoutek has published an essay titled “The Hand of the Invisible: On August Strindberg and the Weird” in the Spring 2020 issue of the journal “Wormwood.” This British publication focuses on critique of fantasy, supernatural, and decadent literature. A technician at the Livingston Lord Library, Kohoutek is also an alumni of MSUM’s MFA in Creative […]

Pieces by Karen Joan Kohoutek published in book and journal

An essay by Karen Joan Kohoutek, entitled “A Fit Symbol for His Meaning: Arthur Machen and the Inexpressible,” has been published in the book “The Secret Ceremonies: Critical Essays on Arthur Machen.” Two of her shorter pieces, a book review and an essay on the Ladd Observatory in Providence, Rhode Island, an important landmark in the life of weird writer […]

Kohoutek’s essay published in ‘Dead Reckonings’

Karen Joan Kohoutek, Library Technician at Minnesota State University Moorhead, was recently published in Dead Reckonings: A Review of Horror and Weird in the Arts. Her scholarly essay, “Meditations on the Agnostic Gothic,” was published in Dead Reckonings this past spring. Kohoutek is an independent scholar and has written a variety of essays, several regarding the craft and criticism of […]