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from a Young Painter Abroad: James Russel in Rome, 1747-1753 [Introduction and Critical Edition of the James Russel’s Unpublished Manuscripts].”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 Vice President for the Midwest Conference on British Studies.  He is co-editor of H-Albion. On campus, he is the Advisor to the IUPUI Campus Democrats, and in the community, he serves on the Board of Directors at the Martin Luther King Community Center.

Assistant Professor

Department of History

IU School of Liberal Arts


Adjunct Assistant 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





Office: CA 504B

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

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Courses Offered 2009-2010


  1. Fall 2009

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

  3. •H500: Historiography (W, 6-8:45)


  1. Spring 2010

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

  3. •H425: Introduction to Historical Methods (W, 6-8:45)


  1. Summer II 2010

  2. •H114: Western Civilization, 1648 to present (MTW, 10:30-12:45)

  3. •B421: B421: Who Killed Dumbledore? Ethics in Modern Britain (MTW, 1-3:15)



Upcoming Public Lectures and Conference Presentations


The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the British Museum, UK: Conference, Antiquity at Home: Collections in the House Museums of the Eighteenth Century: “The Society of Dilettanti and the Planning of a Museum” (29 January 2010)


Durham University Early Modern Group at Durham University, Durham, UK: “The Society of Dilettanti and the Planning of a Museum” (3 February 2010)


IUPUI Philosophy Club at IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN: “Aesthetics and Race in Enlightenment Philosophy” (9 March 2010, 4:30 pm)


Millennium Seminar in Black Studies at IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN: “Neoclassicism and Race in Georgian Britain” (24 March 2010)

Research: Dr. Kelly has recently completed a monograph, The Society of Dilettanti: Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment (US, UK), which will be published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press in 2009.  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 Specialties: eighteenth-century Britain, comparative imperialism, gender and masculinity, historiography and theory.