Gary Kelly
Professor
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Email:
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gary.kelly@ualberta.ca
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Office:
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4-45 Humanities Centre
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Office Hours:
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By appointment
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Address:
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University of Alberta
4-45 Humanities Centre
Edmonton, AB
Canada T6G 2E5
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BA Toronto, MA, DPhil Oxford
Gary Kelly was Canada Research Chair in Literature and Language in Society (2000-07), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He teaches the British long eighteenth century, popular literature, women's writing, book history, and related topics. He is cross-appointed to the Comparative Literature Program. Current doctoral supervisions are in women's travel writing and politics 1785-1830, fiction of collective identity 1920-1960, Canadian agitprop literature, historical fiction and nation-founding, 20th-century feminist historical fiction, and Russian post-Soviet popular culture. He has taught at University of New Brunswick; Keele University (England), where he was Head of the English Department; the University of Frankfurt; and the University of Bologna. He has published numerous essays on late 18th- and early 19th-century British literature, language, culture, and politics. His books include The English Jacobin Novel (1976), English Fiction of the Romantic Period (1989), Revolutionary Feminism (1991), and Women, Writing, and Revolution (1992). He has edited Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary and The Wrongs of Woman (1976), Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall (1995), two volumes in Bluestocking Feminism (6 vols, 2001), of which he was General Editor, Varieties of Female Gothic (6 vols, 2002), Selected Poems and Prose of Felicia Hemans (2002), Lydia Sigourney: Selected Poetry and Prose (2008), and Newgate Narratives (5 vols, 2009), a selection of Newgate literature. He co-edited British Reform Writers 1789-1914 (2 vols, 1996, 1998). He was an associate editor of the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004-10, now online). He is the General Editor of A History of Women Writing in English (12 vols, in progress, 3 published), and of The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture (9 vols, in progress, 2 in press). He is presently editing Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, preparing a new version of English Fiction of the Romantic Period, and writing on Popular Romanticism, on Romantic Chronotopes, and on Women, Learning and Lore in Romantic Britain. He directs StreetCorner, home of the StreetSuite program of digital humanities software: the Streetprint database application, a conference website app, an academic journal app (coming 2011), and a text-editing app (coming 2012). He directs Six Continents and Between, a collection of Streetprint databases of popular print around the world (see Bratislava: http://bratislava.streetprint.org/), and other Streetprint sites; the latest, in progress, is Popular Romanticism. His academia.edu page is at http://ualberta.academia.edu/GaryKelly.