Madisen King MA Student - Literature

Madisen King is a master's student in English literature at Texas Tech University. Madisen's research interests include monster studies in the postmodern and contemporary American novel, specifically the difference in gender dynamics of monsters or those who create them and why they are cultivated in certain ways.

She is a part of Sigma Tau Delta, an international English honor society, and is a member of Psi Delta, the Texas Tech chapter of Sigma Tau Delta.

Madisen obtained her bachelor's degree in English from Texas Tech University in the spring of 2025.

Conference Presentations

"'Torn between ways': Gloria Anzaldúa's Mestiza Consciousness and Third Spaces in Jovita González's Caballero: A Historical Novel." Sigma Tau Delta Southwestern Regional Conference, Sigma Tau Delta, November 2025. Conference presentation.

"'A woman is a mule’: How the Monster Fosters Learning and Acceptance of Shame in Lone Women." Popular Culture Association, April 2026. Conference presentation.

"'The only cure… is a good ceremony': Trauma, the Body, and Idiosyncratic Healing in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony." Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, June 2026. Conference presentation.

Publication

"Safety Scissors." Harbinger Magazine, 2025.