Biography
Head of the French section of the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics at Limerick, 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 Ireland, France and the UK.
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
Teaching Interests
I teach on a wide range of topics in modern and contemporary French-language and comparative literatures, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Professional Activities
Committee
- 2019 Management Committee, COST Action 18126 ,
- 2017 Consultative Panel, French Studies Bulletin,
- 2015 Steering Committee, Utopian Studies Society (Europe),
- 2014 Executive Committee, Association des Etudes Françaises et Francophones d'Irlande,
- 2014 Editorial Board, Irish Journal of French Studies,
- 2013 Executive Committee, Society for French Studies (2013-19),
- 2012 Managing Editor, Ralahine Utopian Studies (Peter Lang),
- 2010 Executive Committee, Comparative Literature Association of Ireland (2010-13),
Employment
- 2018 University of Limerick - Senior Lecturer in French
- 2003 University of Limerick - 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 NUIG) - Cúntóir. Scoil na Gaeilge (1997)
- 1996 Department of Foreign Affairs, Dublin - Stagiaire. Legal Division (1996-97)
- 1994 Regional Technical College, Galway (now GMIT) - Lecturer in French (1994-96)
- 1993 Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3 (France) - Lecteur d'anglais (1993-94)
Association
- 2017 Ordinary Member, Association for Literary Urban Studies
- 2010 Ordinary Member, Comparative Literature Association of Ireland (CLAI)
- 2004 Ordinary member, Utopian Studies Society (Europe)
- 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
- 2000 - Junior Research Fellowship, Wolfson College Oxford
- 1998 - Senior Heath Harrison Travelling Scholarship, University of Oxford
- 1995 - Travelling Studentship in French, National University of Ireland
- 1990 - Irish Universities Oral French Prize
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
Language
- Italian
- Spanish
- German
- French
- Gaeilge
Outreach
- GOI International Academic Mobility Programme (HEA): Academic outreach and networking visit to Lima (Peru), June 2019.
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
Publications
Book
Strands of Utopia. Spaces of Poetic Work in Twentieth-Century France
Kelly, Michael G.
Strands of Utopia. Spaces of Poetic Work in Twentieth-Century France
Kelly, Michael G.
DOI: 10.4324/9781351195157
Book Chapter
''Le nom vrai d'être est / Chance.' De l'assentiment créateur chez Jean-Paul Michel'
Kelly, Michael G.
Jean-Paul Michel. La surprise de ce qui est
(De)Localizing Capital. Lines of Flight from Zola's Mystères de Marseille'
Kelly, Michael G.
Other Capitals of the Nineteenth Century: An Alternative Mapping of Literary and Cultural Space
'D'un château l'autre. Authorship, Individuation and Utopia in Pola X and De la guerre'
Kelly, Michael G.
Comparative Becomings. Studies in Transition
'Framing Transition(s) in Comparative Studies'
Kelly, Michael G.
Comparative Becomings. Studies in Transition
De l'exposition poétique : uvre, Lêthé et précarité chez Guy Viarre et Valérie Rouzeau'
Kelly, Michael G.
Ineffacer : l'uvre et ses fins
Je découvre enfin la rage et l'art de vivre.' Utopie, individu et état de poésie'
Kelly, Michael G.
René Depestre. Le Soleil devant
Prendre acte de la poésie'
Azérad, Hugues, Michael G.Kelly, Nina Parish and Emma Wagstaff
Chantiers du poème. Prémisses et pratiques de la création poétique moderne et contemporaine
Vers une juridiction du poème : Jacques Dupin'
Kelly, Michael G.
Chantiers du poème. Prémisses et pratiques de la création poétique moderne et contemporaine
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0402-2
Rhetoric and Metaphysics of the Avant-garde Community: Le Grand Jeu, 1928-1930'
Kelly, Michael G.
La Revue. The Twentieth-Century Periodical in French
'Poetic Utterance and the Cosmopolitan Indisposition: On Ghérasim Luca'
Kelly, Michael G.
The Cause of Cosmopolitanism. Dispositions, Models, Transformations
Vers un maintenant de la réalité urbaine. Exploration de Ville'
Kelly, Michael G.
Guillevic maintenant
'Ambivalences du conscient poétique. Histoire et utopie dans Carnac'
Kelly, Michael G.
Guillevic : La poésie à la lumière du quotidien
'Immanence and the Utopian Impulse. On Philippe Jaccottet's readings of Æ and Robert Musil'
Kelly, Michael G.
Exploring the Utopian Impulse
'Intermittences et perspectives du sujet poétique chez Alferi et Tortel'
Kelly, Michael G.
Sens et présence du sujet poétique. La poésie de la France et du monde francophone depuis 1980
'Pureté de l'impur. Robert Desnos et Le Grand Jeu'
Kelly, Michael G.
Robert Desnos. Surrealism in the Twenty-First Century
'Avatars et limites d'une volonté auratique dans le poème segalenien'
Kelly, Michael G.
Ce que le poème dit du poème
'Mut(e)ability: issues of uniqueness, equivalence and human agency in Schwob's Dialogues d'utopie'
Kelly, Michael G.
Currencies. Fiscal Fortunes and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century France
Conference Publication
Meaningfulness, Appropriation and Integration of/in City Narratives'
Kelly, Michael G.
ADEFFI Spring Forum
Kelly, Michael G.
Annual Conference of the Society for French Studies
Kelly, Michael G.
Aligning Language Assessment in Higher Education with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: A Quality Assurance Approach
Batardière, Marie-Thérèse; Conacher, Jean E.; Kelly, Michael G.
'Realising Utopia: Cinema and 1968'
Kelly, Michael G.
'Gérard Titus-Carmel, l'épreuve et la nécessité'
Kelly, Michael G.
'Networks and Connections in the Crime Genre'
Kelly, Michael G.
'Poésie européenne et apatridie / European Poetry and Statelessness'
Kelly, Michael G.
'Baudelaire's Afterlives. Immortality and its Discontents'
Kelly, Michael G.
'Georges Perec's Geographies / Perecquian Geographies'
Kelly, Michael G.
'Jean Paul Michel. La surprise de ce qui est'
Kelly, Michael G.
57th Annual Conference of the Society for French Studies
Kelly, Michael G.
56th Annual Conference of the Society for French Studies
Kelly, Michael G.
Edited Book
Other Journal
A voice from the shadows'. Review article on Self-Shadowing Prey by Ghérasim Luca (tr. Mary Ann Caws)
Kelly, Michael G.
Berlin Review of Books
'The poet as engineer of truth: Pierre Jean Jouve'
Kelly, Michael G.
pierrejeanjouve.org
'Thème and Version. Current approximations of 'French poetry'
Kelly, Michael G.
Oxford Poetry
Other Publication
Arnaud Despax, Totalité et poésie au XXe siècle
Kelly, Michael G.
Llewelyn Brown. L'Esthétique du pli dans l'uvre de Henri Michaux
Kelly, Michael G.
DOI: 10.1093/fs/knw276
Bernard Pingaud. L'Occupation des oisifs. Précis de littérature et textes critiques
Kelly, Michael G.
French Studies
DOI: 10.1093/fs/knv274
Laure Himy-Piéri. Pierre Jean Jouve. La modernité et ses possibles
Kelly, Michael G.
French Studies
DOI: 10.1093/fs/knw111
Olivier Ferret and Anne-Marie Mercier-Faivre (eds.) Biographie & Politique. Vie publique, vie privée, de l'Ancien Régime à la Restauration
Kelly, Michael G.
Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Kir Kuiken. Imagined Sovereignties. Toward a New Political Romanticism
Kelly, Michael G.
Comparative Critical Studies
DOI: 10.3366/ccs.2016.0192
Nicholas Manning. Rhétorique de la sincérité. La poésie moderne en quête d'un langage vrai
Kelly, Michael G.
French Studies
DOI: 10.1093/fs/knv063
Catherine Soulier. Jean Tortel: des livres aux Jardins
Kelly, Michael G.
FRENCH STUDIES
DOI: 10.1093/fs/knu101
Daniel Sipe. Text, Image, and the Problem with Perfection in Nineteenth-Century France: Utopia and Its Afterlives
Kelly, Michael G.
Modern and Contemporary France
DOI: 10.1080/09639489.2013.845153
Sarah Mombert and Michèle Rosellini (eds.) Usages des vies. Le biographique hier et aujourd'hui (XVIIe XXIe siècle)
Kelly, Michael G.
Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Mary-Ann O'Neil. From Babel to Pentecost: The Poetry of Pierre Emmanuel
Kelly, Michael G.
FRENCH STUDIES
DOI: 10.1093/fs/knu097
Rosemary Lancaster. Poetic Illumination: Rene Char and his Artist Allies.
Kelly, Michael G.
French Studies
DOI: 10.1093/fs/kns054
Antoine Hatzenberger (ed.) Utopies des Lumières
Kelly, Michael G.
Modern Language Review
DOI: 10.5699/modelangrevi.107.3.0939
Bruno Fabre. Art in the biography of Marcel Schwob's Imaginary Lives
Kelly, Michael G.
Nineteenth-Century French Studies
DOI: 10.1353/ncf.2012.0007
Jennifer Higgins. English Responses to French Poetry 18801940: Translation and Mediation
Kelly, Michael G.
FRENCH STUDIES
DOI: 10.1093/fs/kns177
Hugues Azérad and Peter Collier (eds.) Twentieth-Century French Poetry: A Critical Anthology
Kelly, Michael G.
FRENCH STUDIES
DOI: 10.1093/fs/knr062
John West-Sooby (ed.) Nowhere is Perfect. French and Francophone Utopias/Dystopias
Kelly, Michael G.
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY FRANCE
Michael Bishop. The Endless Theory of Days: The Art and Poetry of Gérard Titus-Carmel
Kelly, Michael G.
FRENCH STUDIES
DOI: 10.1093/fs/knn073
Jean-Yves Debreuille (ed.) La Voix et le geste. André Frénaud et ses peintres
Kelly, Michael G.
FRENCH STUDIES
DOI: 10.1093/fs/knm156
Pascal Brissette. La Malédiction littéraire. Du poète crotté au génie malheureux
Kelly, Michael G.
FRENCH STUDIES
DOI: 10.1093/fs/knl089
Bernard de Meyer. Marcel Schwob. Conteur de l'imaginaire
Kelly, Michael G.
FRENCH STUDIES
DOI: 10.1093/fs/knl142
Agnès Lhermitte. Palimpseste et merveilleux dans l'oeuvre de Marcel Schwob
Kelly, Michael G.
FRENCH STUDIES
DOI: 10.1093/fs/kni253
Christiane Blot-Labarrère (ed.) Jouve et le symbole (Cahier Jouve 7)
Kelly, Michael G.
IRISH JOURNAL OF FRENCH STUDIES
Michael Bishop and Christopher Elson (eds.) Contemporary French Poetics
Kelly, Michael G.
IRISH JOURNAL OF FRENCH STUDIES
Michael Brophy. Voies vers l'autre
Kelly, Michael G.
FRENCH STUDIES
DOI: 10.1093/fs/LIII.3.359
'Aibítir' [Henri Michaux]
Kelly, Michael G.
Comhar
DOI: 10.2307/25573816
'Coisí Cathrach' [Federico García Lorca]
Kelly, Michael G.
Comhar
DOI: 10.2307/25573697
'Úbú Rex' [Alfred Jarry]
Kelly, Michael G. (Micheál Ó Ceallaigh)
'La Grande Famine' [Patrick Kavanagh]
Duclos, Michèle
Jean-Yves Masson (ed.) Anthologie de la poésie irlandaise du XXe siècle (Verdier, 1996)
'Magie et écriture chez Henri Michaux.'
Kelly, Michael G.
Peer Reviewed Journal
A l'angle vif du monde. De la mise en espace du silence chez Gérard Titus-Carmel
Kelly, Michael G.
Triages
Utopian Studies in Ireland
Kelly, Michael G.
Utopian Studies
Du droit au poème. Jacques Dupin et la question d'une institutionnalité poétique
Kelly, Michael G.
L'Esprit Créateur
DOI: 10.1353/esp.2015.0013
Introduction. La poésie à l'uvre: Poetry, Philosophy, Politics
Kelly, Michael G.
L'Esprit Créateur
DOI: 10.1353/esp.2015.0004
De l'entre-deux à l'indivisible (sur la personne jouvienne)
Kelly, Michael G.
Cahiers Pierre Jean Jouve
Perec et la contrainte du réel, ou l'Horizon du cartographe
Kelly, Michael G.
L'Atelier Du Roman
Model Behaviour. Cocteau, Radiguet and La Princesse de Clèves
Kelly, Michael G.
Neophilologus
DOI: 10.1007/s11061-013-9347-3
Un monde nouveau' (sur Jean-Paul Michel)
Kelly, Michael G.
Revue Nu(e)
Délires d'Europe. Le roman contemporain aux prises avec ses origines (Lobo Antunes, Senges)
Kelly, Michael G.
Romanesques
Jarry, Stevenson and Cosmopolitan Ambivalence
Kelly, Michael G.
Comparative Critical Studies
DOI: 10.3366/ccs.2013.0088
Parole et utopie. Paradigmes de la transition postcoloniale chez Ó Cadhain et Senghor
Kelly, Michael G.
Revue de Littérature Comparée
Synthèses et relais: Mapping Confluences and Migrations in Poetic Practice (Introduction)
Kelly, Michael G. and Nina Parish
French Forum
DOI: 10.1353/frf.2012.0008
Poetic Practice and the Practice of Poetics in French since 1945 (Guest Editors' Introduction)
Azérad, Hugues, Michael G. Kelly, Nina Parish and Emma Wagstaff
French Forum
DOI: 10.1353/frf.2012.0026
Poetry as a Foreign Language: Unhoused Writing Subjects in the Extreme Contemporain
Kelly, Michael G.
Forum For Modern Language Studies
DOI: 10.1093/fmls/cqr034
Jouve et la raison poétique
Kelly, Michael G.
Cahiers Pierre Jean Jouve
Du Droit à la Littérature
Kelly, Michael G.
International Journal Of Legal Semiotics / Revue Internationale De Sémiotique
DOI: 10.1007/s11196-009-9109-5
Literary Individuation and the Ethnography of Indifference: Reading Augé after Houellebecq
Kelly, Michael G.
The Irish Journal Of French Studies
DOI: 10.7173/16491335.2009.09.01.069
La conversion impure (sur Pierre Jean Jouve)
Kelly, Michael G.
L'Atelier Du Roman
La parole donnée : individuation et mélancolie du poète Goffette
Kelly, Michael G.
Littératures
Du poétique comme imaginaire de la lucidité. Modernité de Jouve
Kelly, Michael G.
La Revue Des Lettres Modernes
'La Clôture' de Jean Rolin et le travail de l'urbain.
Kelly, Michael G.
Irish Journal Of French Studies
Entre création et espace pur. Situations du sujet poétique dans les Cinq grandes odes
Kelly, Michael G.
Les Lettres Romanes
DOI: 10.1484/J.LLR.3.99
Écrire sa conviction: d'une consonance entre poésie et traduction chez Yves Bonnefoy.
Kelly, Michael G.
Dalhousie French Studies
Spreading the Good News: Some Private Law Applications for Constitutional Provisions
Kelly, Michael G.
Irish Student Law Review