Research Interests
American and African American Literature; American Popular Music; American Popular Music Criticism and Journalism; Race; Autobiographical Narrative; Creative Nonfiction
Education
University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D. 2015
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, English
Associate Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Highlighted Publications
Mack, K. (2023). Living Colour's Time’s Up. (33 1/3). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501377549
Mack, K. (2020). Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White. University of Massachusetts Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1ghv407
Recent Publications
Mack, K. (2023). Living Colour's Time’s Up. (33 1/3). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501377549
Mack, K. (2022). Love Story Black and the Third Plane Novel. African American Review, 55(2-3), 179-189. https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0021
Mack, K. (2021). The Self-Fashioned American Blues Identity. In P. Devlin (Ed.), Ralph Ellison in Context (pp. 197-206). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108773546.019
Marcus, S., Tongson, K., Harper, P., Mack, K., Weisbard, E., & Zagorski-Thomas, S. (2021). Remote Intimacy: Popular Music Conversations in the Covid Era: Popular music conversations in the covid era. Journal of Popular Music Studies, 33(1), 11-28. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2021.33.1.11
Mack, K. (2020). Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White. University of Massachusetts Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1ghv407