Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Faculty Member, History

Associate Professor of British History

About

Teaching Specialties: eighteenth-century Britain, comparative imperialism, gender and masculinity, historiography and theory.

Research: Dr. Kelly’s monograph, The Society of Dilettanti: Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment (US, UK), was published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press in February 2010.  His recent articles include "The Portraits of Sir James Gray, Bt." and "James 'Athenian' Stuart's Portrait of James Dawkins" for The British Art Journal and "Riots, Revelry, and Rumor: Libertinism and Masculine Association in Enlightenment London" for the Journal of British Studies.

He is Associate Editor for Britain for the International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 8 vols. (Blackwell,2009). 

Dr. Kelly's other publications include (ed.) Looking Up: Science and Observation in Early Modern Europe (Legas and the Center for Communication and Information Sciences, 2002), and he has published articles in The American Journal of Semiotics and the Journal of German Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis. He has also contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2006), the Dictionary of British Classicists, 1500-1960 (Thoemmes Press, 2004), and the forthcoming World History Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO).

His current research projects include a study of citizenship, ethics, and civic responsibility entitled “In the Wake of Abolition: Citizenship in the British Atlantic, 1807-1921;” “Letters from a Young Painter Abroad: James Russel in Rome, 1747-1753 [Introduction and Critical Edition of the James Russel’s Unpublished Manuscripts].” Walpole Society 74, forthcoming 2012; and “Nicholas Revett (1721-1804): A Catalogue Raisonné.”

Service: Dr. Kelly serves on the Council of the North American Conference on British Studies as webmaster, and he is the Vice President for the Midwest Conference on British Studies.  He is co-editor of H-Albion. On campus, he is the Advisor to the IUPUI Campus Democrats, and in the community, he serves on the Board of Directors at the Martin Luther King Community Center.


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