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from a Young Painter Abroad: James Russel in Rome, 1747-1753 [Introduction and Critical Edition of the James Russel’s Unpublished Manuscripts].”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

jaskelly@iupui.edu

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


  1. Summer I 2011

  2. •H109: World History, 1750 to Present  (MTW, 10:30-1:00)

  3. •H113: Western Civilization, Prehistory to 1648  (MTW, 1:00-3:15)


  5. Fall 2011

  6. •Sabbatical


  1. Spring 2012

  2. •H114: Western Civilization, 1648 to present (MW, 10:30-11:45)

  3. •B421: The Enlightenment (MW, 1:30-2:45)

  4. •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

  1. •IU Trustees Teaching Award (2011, 2008)

  2. •IUPUI School of Liberal Arts Student Council, Outstanding Academic Adviser
    Award (2010)

  3. •IUPUI Athletics Favorite Professor Award (2005, 2007, 2010)


Teaching Specialties

eighteenth-century Britain, comparative imperialisms, gender and masculinity, historiography and theory