Dr. Jason M. Kelly
Dr. Jason M. Kelly
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from a Young Painter Abroad: James Russel in Rome, 1747-1753 [Introduction and Critical Edition of the James Russel’s Unpublished Manuscripts].”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 President for the Midwest Conference on British Studies. He is co-editor of H-Albion. On campus, he is the Director of the IUPUI-Newcastle University Exchange Program and the Advisor to the IUPUI Campus Democrats.
For links to Dr. Kelly’s articles and for samples of his current research, visit his Digital CV and Research Blog at http://jaskelly.edublogs.org/. Join his academic network through Academia.edu or through Linkedin.
Associate Professor
Department of History
IU School of Liberal Arts
Adjunct Associate Professor
Africana Studies Program
IU School of Liberal Arts
Adjunct Associate Professor
American Studies Program
IU School of Liberal Arts
Director
IUPUI-Newcastle Exchange Program
IU School of Liberal Arts
Visiting Fellow
School of Historical Studies
University of Newcastle
President
Midwest Conference on British Studies
Office: CA 503N
Phone: (317) 274-1689
B.A. Penn State University (1997)
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara (2004)
Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
School of Liberal Arts
425 University Blvd
Cavanaugh Hall 441
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Ph: 317.274.1456 | Email: libarts@iupui.edu
Courses Offered 2011-2012
Summer I 2011
•H109: World History, 1750 to Present (MTW, 10:30-1:00)
•H113: Western Civilization, Prehistory to 1648 (MTW, 1:00-3:15)
Fall 2011
•Sabbatical
Spring 2012
•H114: Western Civilization, 1648 to present (MW, 10:30-11:45)
•B421: The Enlightenment (MW, 1:30-2:45)
•J495: Enlightenment Britain, Senior Capstone Seminar (M, 5:00-5:40)
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.
Teaching:
Teaching Awards
•IU Trustees Teaching Award (2011, 2008)
•IUPUI School of Liberal Arts Student Council, Outstanding Academic Adviser
Award (2010)
•IUPUI Athletics Favorite Professor Award (2005, 2007, 2010)
Teaching Specialties
eighteenth-century Britain, comparative imperialisms, gender and masculinity, historiography and theory