Dr. Michael G Kelly

Faculty Of Arts, Humanities & Social Sci

School Of Modern Languages & Applied Lin

Position: Associate Professor of French

Email: michael.g.kelly@ul.ie

Tel: 061 213174

Address(es)

University of Limerick

Plassey

Co. Limerick

Ireland

Biography

Michael G. Kelly has lectured in French and comparative literature at UL since 2003, having previously taught and studied at a number of universities and other HE institutions in France, Ireland, and the UK.

Head of the discipline of French within the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics, he currently serves as Director of Research for the School, as Director of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies (an interdisciplinary research centre at UL), and as Managing Editor of the Ralahine Utopian Studies book series (published by Peter Lang).

Areas of research interest include modern poetry and poetics in French, utopian theory and texts in a comparative perspective, interdisciplinary approaches to textual interpretation, and issues of literary and artistic individuation in modern and contemporary contexts. A current book project concerns the question of individuation in modern and contemporary French poetry. Another ongoing comparative project explores the question of cognitive mapping in contemporary European literature.

Research Interests

Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics in French; Vectors and discourses of utopia; Theories and treatments of space in literary thought; The subject and the work of writing, with specific reference to literary individuation;Cognitive mapping in contemporary European literature; Literary Urban Studies; Interdisciplinary approaches to textual interpretation;Law, language and literature;Developments in the fields of comparative literature and critical theory

Professional Activities

Committee

2023 Advisory Board, Irish Journal of French Studies,
2022 Association for Literary Urban Studies,
2019 Management Committee, COST Action 18126 ,
2017 Consultative Panel, French Studies Bulletin,
2015 Steering Committee, Utopian Studies Society (Europe),
2014 Editorial Board, Irish Journal of French Studies,
2014 Executive Committee, Association des Etudes Françaises et Francophones d'Irlande,
2013 Executive Committee, Society for French Studies (2013-19),
2012 Editorial Committee, Ralahine Utopian Studies Book Series (Peter Lang),
2010 Executive Committee, Comparative Literature Association of Ireland (2010-13),

Association

2017 Ordinary Member, Association for Literary Urban Studies
2003 Ordinary member, Association des Études Françaises et Francophones d'Irlande (ADEFFI)
2003 Ordinary member, Society for French Studies (SFS)

Award

2014 - IRC New Foundations Scheme Award
2009 - Visiting Scholar, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
2001 - Pensionnaire scientifique, École Normale Supérieure, Rue d'Ulm, Paris
2000 - Junior Research Fellowship, Wolfson College Oxford
1999 - Pensionnaire scientifique étranger, École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-St. Cloud, Paris
1998 - Senior Heath Harrison Travelling Scholarship, University of Oxford
1995 - Travelling Studentship in French, National University of Ireland

Employment

2003 University of Limerick - Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in French
2002 University College Dublin - Assistant Lecturer in French (2002-03)
2001 Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Paris - Chargé de cours (anglais) (2001-02)
2000 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Rue d'Ulm, Paris - Maître de langue (anglais) (2000-01)
1997 University College Galway (now University of Galway) - Cúntóir. Scoil na Gaeilge (1997)
1996 Department of Foreign Affairs, Dublin - Stagiaire. Legal Division (1996-97)
1994 Regional Technical College, Galway (now ATU) - Lecturer in French (1994-96)
1993 Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3 (France) - Lecteur d'anglais (1993-94)

Education

2002 University of Oxford - Doctor of Philosophy
1998 University of Oxford - Master of Studies
1996 University College Galway - Bachelor of Laws
1995 National University of Ireland - Master of Arts
1993 University College Galway - Bachelor of Arts

Research Collaborators

CA18126 - Writing Urban Places. New Narratives of the European City - International Collaboration Type - COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology -Netherlands -EU-wide research network (2019-2023) https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA18126/#tabs|Name:overview

Peer Reviewed Journals

2023

Literary City Limits: Cognitive Mapping in Contemporary Marseille

Kelly, Michael G. (2023) Literary City Limits: Cognitive Mapping in Contemporary Marseille. Oxford Forum For Modern Language Studies :140-159

Biography

Research Interests

Professional Activities

Committee

Association

Award

Employment

Education

Research Collaborators

Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals

Literary City Limits: Cognitive Mapping in Contemporary Marseille

Urban Utopics: Writing the City in the Light of Utopia

Wie aus fernem Land

Baudelaire and the Poetic Margin: Generic Resistances and Human Remainders in the Contemporary Scene

A l'angle vif du monde. De la mise en espace du silence chez Gérard Titus-Carmel

Utopian Studies in Ireland

Du droit au poème. Jacques Dupin et la question d'une institutionnalité poétique

Introduction. La poésie à l'uvre: Poetry, Philosophy, Politics

De l'entre-deux à l'indivisible (sur la personne jouvienne)

Un monde nouveau' (sur Jean-Paul Michel)

Perec et la contrainte du réel, ou l'Horizon du cartographe

Model Behaviour. Cocteau, Radiguet and La Princesse de Clèves

Parole et utopie. Paradigmes de la transition postcoloniale chez Ó Cadhain et Senghor

Délires d'Europe. Le roman contemporain aux prises avec ses origines (Lobo Antunes, Senges)

Jarry, Stevenson and Cosmopolitan Ambivalence

Synthèses et relais: Mapping Confluences and Migrations in Poetic Practice (Introduction)

Poetic Practice and the Practice of Poetics in French since 1945 (Guest Editors' Introduction)

Poetry as a Foreign Language: Unhoused Writing Subjects in the Extrême Contemporain

Jouve et la raison poétique

Literary Individuation and the Ethnography of Indifference: Reading Augé after Houellebecq

Du Droit à la Littérature

La conversion impure (sur Pierre Jean Jouve)

La parole donnée : individuation et mélancolie du poète Goffette

Du poétique comme imaginaire de la lucidité. Modernité de Jouve

'La Clôture' de Jean Rolin et le travail de l'urbain.

Entre création et espace pur. Situations du sujet poétique dans les Cinq grandes odes

Écrire sa conviction: d'une consonance entre poésie et traduction chez Yves Bonnefoy.

Spreading the Good News: Some Private Law Applications for Constitutional Provisions

Books

Strands of Utopia. Spaces of Poetic Work in Twentieth-Century France

Strands of Utopia. Spaces of Poetic Work in Twentieth-Century France

Book Chapters

'Fair and Unfair Cities: Equity, Ideology, Utopia'

'The Form of a City. Geographies of Constraint in Contemporary Urban Writing from France'

'Pathways towards Utterance in Contemporary French Poetic Practice. Framing the Urban Real'

''Le nom vrai d'être est / Chance.' De l'assentiment créateur chez Jean-Paul Michel'

(De)Localizing Capital. Lines of Flight from Zola's Mystères de Marseille'

'D'un château l'autre. Authorship, Individuation and Utopia in Pola X and De la guerre'

'Framing Transition(s) in Comparative Studies'

Je découvre enfin la rage et l'art de vivre.' Utopie, individu et état de poésie'

De l'exposition poétique : uvre, Lêthé et précarité chez Guy Viarre et Valérie Rouzeau'

Rhetoric and Metaphysics of the Avant-garde Community: Le Grand Jeu, 1928-1930'

Prendre acte de la poésie'

Vers une juridiction du poème : Jacques Dupin'

Vers un maintenant de la réalité urbaine. Exploration de Ville'

'Poetic Utterance and the Cosmopolitan Indisposition: On Ghérasim Luca'

'Ambivalences du conscient poétique. Histoire et utopie dans Carnac'

'Immanence and the Utopian Impulse. On Philippe Jaccottet's readings of Æ and Robert Musil'

'Intermittences et perspectives du sujet poétique chez Alferi et Tortel'

'Pureté de l'impur. Robert Desnos et Le Grand Jeu'

'Mut(e)ability: issues of uniqueness, equivalence and human agency in Schwob's Dialogues d'utopie'

'Avatars et limites d'une volonté auratique dans le poème segalenien'

Edited Books

Utopia, Equity and Ideology in Urban Texts. Fair and Unfair Cities

'Urban Utopics.' Forum for Modern Language Studies Vol. 59(1), January 2023

Comparative Becomings. Studies in Transition

La poésie à l'uvre: Poetry, Philosophy, Politics', L'Esprit Créateur, Vol. 55 (1), Spring 2015

Chantiers du poème. Prémisses et pratiques de la création poétique moderne et contemporaine

Poetic Practice and the Practice of Poetics in French since 1945', French Forum, 37.1-2, Winter/Spring 2012

Other Journals

A voice from the shadows'. Review article on Self-Shadowing Prey by Ghérasim Luca (tr. Mary Ann Caws)

'The poet as engineer of truth: Pierre Jean Jouve'

'Thème and Version. Current approximations of 'French poetry'

Conference Publications

Meaningfulness, Appropriation and Integration of/in City Narratives'

ADEFFI Spring Forum

Variable Geometries: The French Hexagon in Post-war French and Francophone Culture

The CEFR as an Aid to Learning and Assessment for Literary and Cultural Studies in the Modern Languages: Challenges, Opportunities, Practices'

Literary Research Seminar, Escuela de Posgrado, Departamento de Humanidades, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Introduction. La poésie à l'uvre: Poetry, Philosophy, Politics

Un monde nouveau' (sur Jean-Paul Michel)

(De)Localizing Capital. Lines of Flight from Zola's Mystères de Marseille'

Je découvre enfin la rage et l'art de vivre.' Utopie, individu et état de poésie'

De l'exposition poétique : uvre, Lêthé et précarité chez Guy Viarre et Valérie Rouzeau'

Rhetoric and Metaphysics of the Avant-garde Community: Le Grand Jeu, 1928-1930'

Prendre acte de la poésie'

Vers une juridiction du poème : Jacques Dupin'

Vers un maintenant de la réalité urbaine. Exploration de Ville'

La poésie à l'uvre: Poetry, Philosophy, Politics', L'Esprit Créateur, Vol. 55 (1), Spring 2015

Poetic Practice and the Practice of Poetics in French since 1945', French Forum, 37.1-2, Winter/Spring 2012

A voice from the shadows'. Review article on Self-Shadowing Prey by Ghérasim Luca (tr. Mary Ann Caws)

Meaningfulness, Appropriation and Integration of/in City Narratives'

The CEFR as an Aid to Learning and Assessment for Literary and Cultural Studies in the Modern Languages: Challenges, Opportunities, Practices'

Consuming Crime. Consumption, Commodification and Consumerism in Crime Fiction, Film and Television'

Jérémie Berton. La Musique et la forme dans l'uvre poétique de Pierre Jean Jouve

Llewelyn Brown. L'Esthétique du pli dans l'uvre de Henri Michaux

Sarah Mombert and Michèle Rosellini (eds.) Usages des vies. Le biographique hier et aujourd'hui (XVIIe XXIe siècle)

Jennifer Higgins. English Responses to French Poetry 18801940: Translation and Mediation

Jérémie Berton. La Musique et la forme dans l'uvre poétique de Pierre Jean Jouve

Llewelyn Brown. L'Esthétique du pli dans l'uvre de Henri Michaux