Houlden, K. (2026) 'Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Post-Millennial Global Fiction'. Palgrave Macmillan.

Houlden, K. (2026) ''Diriye Osman' and 'The Girl With The Louding Voice (2020) by Abi Daré', in Edwin, M. and Phillip, C. (eds.) The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Black British Writing. Bloomsbury. , Vol. 3.

Houlden, K. (2025) 'Commodifying Care: Migrant Literature and Materialist Feminism', in Mishra, S. and Vandertop, C. (eds.) Commodities and Literature. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. ISBN 10: 1-009-43234-6. ISBN 13: 978-1-009-43232-0. 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.

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

Deckard, 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