Dr. Michael G. Kelly
Responsibilities
- Lecturer in French
- Senior Advisor for the School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication
- Course Director: MA in French
Research Interests:
- Twentieth-Century poetry and poetics in French (Segalen, Daumal, Bonnefoy, Michaux, Jouve etc.)
- Vectors and discourses of utopia
- Notions of space in literary thought
- The ‘subject’ and the work of writing
- Dynamics and varieties of literary individuation in Modern France
- Comparative literature
- Interdisciplinary approaches to textual interpretation.
University Education
- 2002: D.Phil in French Literature (Oxon)
- 1998: M.St in European Literature (Oxon)
- 1996: LL.B (NUI)
- 1995: M.A. in French (NUI)
- 1993: B.A. in French and Legal Science (NUI)
Research awards / positions held
- 2009-10. Visiting Scholar, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University (Fall and Winter Terms)
- 2000-02: Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College, University of Oxford.
- 1999-00: Senior Heath Harrison Travelling Scholarship from University of Oxford (awarded in 1998)
- 1997-99: Travelling Studentship in French from the National University of Ireland (awarded in 1995)
Employment history
- 2003 – 2007: ‘Junior Lecturer in French’ in the Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick.
- 2002 – 2003: ‘Assistant Lecturer’ in the Department of French, University College Dublin.
- 2001-2002: ‘Chargé de cours’ for English at the École Nationale des Chartes, Rue de la Sorbonne, Paris.
- 2000-2001: ‘Maître de langue’ for English in the ‘Département de Littérature et Langages’ of the École Normale Supérieure, Rue d’Ulm, Paris.
- 1997-1997: ‘Cúntóir’. Roinn na Gaeilge (Oifig na Gaeilge Labhartha), Coláiste na hOllscoile Gaillimh (School of Irish, University College Galway).
- 1996-1997: ‘Stagiaire’ in the Legal Division of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, Dublin.
- 1994-1996: ‘Part-time Lecturer in French’ in the Regional Technical College (RTC), Galway (now Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, GMIT.)
- 1993-1994: ‘Lecteur’ in English at the Université Michel de Montaigne (Bordeaux III), France.
Publications
Books
Strands of Utopia: Spaces of Poetic Work in Twentieth-Century France, Oxford, Legenda, 2008.
www.mhra.org.uk/cgi-bin/legenda/legenda.pl?catalogue=b9781905981144
Henri Michaux. Magie et écriture (forthcoming)
Articles / essays
‘Poetry as a Foreign Language. Unhoused Writing Subjects in the Extrême Contemporain’, Forum for Modern Language Studies 2011 Vol. 47(4), pp. 393-407.
‘Vers un maintenant de la réalité urbaine. Exploration de Ville’ in Brophy, Michael and Bernard Fournier (eds.) Guillevic maintenant (Colloque de Cerisy 11-18 juillet 2009), Paris, Honoré Champion (Coll. Poétiques et Esthétiques XXe-XXIe siècle 5), 2011, pp. 339-47.
‘Poetic Utterance and the Cosmopolitan Indisposition: On Ghérasim Luca’ in O’Donovan, Patrick and Laura Rascaroli (eds.) The Cause of Cosmopolitanism. Dispositions, Models, Transformations, Bern, Peter Lang, 2010, pp. 271-91.
‘Jouve et la raison poétique’ in Bonhomme, Béatrice (ed.) Intégrités et transgressions de Pierre Jean Jouve (Cahiers Pierre Jean Jouve No. 2), Paris, Editions Calliopées, 2010, pp. 39-52.
‘Literary Individuation and the Ethnography of Indifference: Reading Augé after Houellebecq’. Irish Journal of French Studies, Vol. 9, 2009, pp. 69-92.
‘Du Droit à la Littérature’. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law – Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, Vol. 22 (3), 2009, pp. 343-54.
‘Ambivalences du conscient poétique. Histoire et utopie dans Carnac’ in Brophy, Michael (ed.) Guillevic : La poésie à la lumière du quotidien, Bern, Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 131-43.
‘La conversion impure’. L’Atelier du roman 56 (‘Pierre Jean Jouve’), 2008, pp. 63-73.
‘La parole donnée : individuation et mélancolie du poète Goffette’. Littératures, Vol. 57, 2007, pp. 147-61.
‘Immanence and the Utopian Impulse. On Philippe Jaccottet’s readings of Æ and Robert Musil’ in Griffin, Michael and Tom Moylan (eds.) Exploring the Utopian Impulse, Bern, Peter Lang, 2007, pp. 207-23.
‘Du poétique comme imaginaire de la lucidité. Modernité de Jouve’. La Revue des Lettres Modernes, Série Jouve Vol. 8, 2006, pp. 53-81.
‘Pureté de l’impur: Robert Desnos et Le Grand Jeu’ in Barnet, Marie-Claire, Eric Robertson and Nigel Saint (eds). Robert Desnos. Surrealism in the New Century, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2006, pp. 43-56.
‘Intermittences et perspectives du sujet poétique chez Alferi et Tortel’ in Brophy, Michael and Mary Gallagher (eds.) Sens et présence du sujet poétique. La poésie de la France et du monde francophone depuis 1980, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2006, pp.181-90.
‘La Clôture de Jean Rolin et le travail de l’urbain’. Irish Journal of French Studies, Vol. 5, 2005, pp. 21-39.
‘Mut(e)ability: issues of uniqueness, equivalence and human agency in Schwob’s Dialogues d’utopie’, in Capitanio et al. (eds.) Currencies: Fiscal Fortunes and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century France, Bern, Peter Lang, 2005, pp. 105-117.
‘Avatars et limites d’une volonté auratique dans le poème segalenien’ in Halpern, Anne-Elisabeth and Christian Doumet (eds.) Ce que le poème dit du poème, Saint-Denis, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes (Coll. L’Imaginaire du Texte), 2005, pp. 151-62.
‘Entre création et espace pur. Situations du sujet poétique dans les Cinq Grandes Odes’. Les Lettres Romanes, Vol. LVIII, No. 3-4, 2004, pp. 213-26.
‘Écrire sa conviction: d’une consonance entre poésie et traduction chez Yves Bonnefoy’. Dalhousie French Studies, Vol. 60, Autumn 2002, pp. 47-53.
‘Thème and Version. Current approximations of ‘French poetry’’, Oxford Poetry, Vol. 10 no. 1 (1998), pp. 43-49.
‘Spreading the Good News: Some Private Law Applications for Constitutional Provisions’. Irish Student Law Review, Vol. 5, 1995, pp. 39-53.
Aistriúchán:
Úbú Rex, leagan Gaeilge ar Ubu roi (1896) le hAlfred Jarry. Léirithe i dTaibhdhearc na Gaillimhe, Meán Fómhair / Deireadh Fómhair 1997.