Houlden, K. (2025) 'Commodifying Care: Migrant Literature and Materialist Feminism', in Sudesh, M. and Caitlin, V. (eds.) Commodities and Literature. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.Open Access Link

Houlden, K. (2025) 'Cleaning in the Context of Financial Crisis: Stephanie Land’s Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother’s Will to Survive (2019) and Michelle Kirsch’s Clean: A Story of Addiction, Recovery and the Removal of Stubborn Stains (2019).', in Douglas, R. and Farnsworth, F. (eds.) Women in World Literature: A Reader. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press.

Houlden, K. (Accepted) 'Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Post-Millennial Global Fiction'. Palgrave Macmillan.

Sharae, D. and Kate, H. (2023) 'Social Reproduction Feminism and World-Culture: Introduction'. Feminist Theory: an international interdisciplinary journal, 25 (2). pp. 131 - 148. ISSN: 1464-7001 Open Access Link

Deackard, S., Houlden, K., Rushton, A., Marte-Wood, AS., Sánchez Russo, D. and Varma, R. (2023) 'Roundtable discussion: World-culture and social reproduction feminism'. Feminist Theory: an international interdisciplinary journal, 25 (2). pp. 242 - 259. ISSN: 1464-7001 Open Access Link

Houlden, K. (2023) 'Tracking the monstrous gendered precarity of neoliberalisation through novels and films of 1980s England and contemporary Ireland'. Feminist Theory: an international interdisciplinary journal, 25 (2 (Special Issue: Social Reproduction Feminism and World-Culture)). pp. 187 - 204. ISSN: 1464-7001 Open Access Link

Houlden, K. (2023) 'The Other Windrush: Legacies of Indenture in Britain’s Caribbean Empire'. Wasafiri: Caribbean, African, Asian and Associated Literatures in English, 38 (2). pp. 102 - 103. ISSN: 0269-0055 Open Access Link

Houlden, K. (2022) ''It worked in a different way': Male same-sex desire in the novels of Abdulrazak Gurnah', in Steiner, T. and Olaussen, M. (eds.) Critical Perspectives on Abdulrazak Gurnah. London : Routledge. pp. 91 - 104. ISBN 10: 1-003-28525-2. ISBN 13: 978-1-032-25839-3. Open Access Link

Houlden, K. (2020) 'Redefining the Boundaries: Black and Asian Queer Desire', in Nasta, S. and Stein, M. (eds.) The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing.. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. pp. 569 - 584. ISBN 10: 1107195446. ISBN 13: 978-1107195448.

Houlden, K. (2019) 'Narrative and Normative Disjuncture: A Queer World-Literary Reading of May-Lan Tan’s ‘Date Night’'. Wasafiri, 34 (2). pp. 3 - 9. ISSN: 0269-0055 Open Access Link

Houlden, K. and Gunne, S. (2019) 'The gendering of Irish and caribbean food/land crises in children's novels by Marita Conlon-McKenna and James Berry'. Irish University Review, 49 (1). pp. 36 - 53. ISSN: 0021-1427 Open Access Link

Atia, N. and Houlden, K. (2018) 'Popular Postcolonialisms Discourses of Empire and Popular Culture'. New York: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures. ISSN 10: 1138125059 ISSN 13: 9781138125056

Houlden, K. (2017) 'Queering the World or Worlding the Queer? New Readings of Anna Kavan’s Who Are You?'. Women: A Cultural Review, 28 (4). pp. 295 - 311. ISSN: 0957-4042 Open Access Link

Houlden, K. (2016) 'Sexuality, Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature'. New York: Routledge. ISSN 10: 0415749832 ISSN 13: 9780415749831

Houlden, K. (2016) 'Racialised Femininities in Samuel Selvon’s Trinidad Novels', in McIntosh, M. (ed.) Beyond Calypso: Re-Reading Sam Selvon. Kingston, Jamaica : Ian Randle. pp. 84 - 101. ISBN 13: 978-976-637-861-5.

Houlden, K. (2015) 'John Hearne’s Plantation Fantasy', inBeyond Windrush. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 145 - 157.

Houlden, K. (2015) 'Writing the impossible: Racial, sexual and stylistic expansivity in Nalo Hopkinsons the Salt Roads (2003)'. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 51 (4). pp. 462 - 475. ISSN: 1744-9855

Houlden, K. (2013) 'It worked in a different way: Male same-sex desire in the novels of Abdulrazak Gurnah'. English Studies in Africa, 56 (1). pp. 91 - 104. ISSN: 0013-8398

Houlden, K. (2013) 'Andrew Salkey, the British home, and the intimacies in-between'. Interventions, 15 (1). pp. 95 - 109. ISSN: 1369-801X

Houlden, K. (2012) 'Andrew Salkey, James Baldwin and the case of the "Leading Aberrant": Early gay narratives in the British media', in Pullen, C. (ed.) LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 146 - 160. ISBN 13: 9781349336746.

Houlden, K. (2012) 'Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners (1956), White Sexual Desire and the Calypso Aesthetic’'. Journal of West Indian Literature, 20 (2). pp. 24 - 37. ISSN: 0258-8501

Houlden, K. (2010) 'Nostalgia for the past as guide to the future: Paule marshall's the chosen place, the timeless people'. Memory Studies, 3 (3). pp. 253 - 261. ISSN: 1750-6980