Professor; Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
k.kelly@neu.edu
Research areas and interests
Medieval literature; medievalism, film (“movie medievalism”); Ecocriticism, environmental history
Teaching interests
Medieval literature (Chaucer, romance, literature and culture, literature and film); world literatures to 1500; contemporary British novel; nature writing and Ecocriticism
Selected Publications
In medieval studies
- Allegorica, Arthuriana, Assays, Exemplaria, Parergon, and Studies in Philology
- Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (co-edited with Marina Leslie)
- Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages (Routledge)
- Various book chapters
In movie medievalism
- Queer Movie Medievalisms (co-ed. with Tison Pugh)
- Exemplaria, Arthuriana
- Various book chapters
In progress
- “Lost and Invented Ecologies”
Papers presented
- “After Something: Lost and Invented Ecologies,” BABEL I 2010
- “Lost Geographies and The Awntyrs off Arthure,” MLA 2011
- “The Broken Road,” the first novel in a post-apocalyptic, ecotopic, polymorphously-perverse cyberpunk trilogy