Education:
M.A.T, Northwestern University, M.A. University College Dublin
Ph.D., Southern Illinois University
Contact:
Office: Cate 2, Room 212
Email: David.Kelly-1@ou.edu
My dissertation research examines the intersection of two themes: cultural appropriation and the re-imagination of Northern Irish identity in the works of three contemporary poets writing during and after the Troubles (1968-1998). This comparative study traces how each of the writers, Seamus Heaney, Ciaran Carson, and Sinead Morrissey, constructs a distinctive postnational space for envisioning Northern Irish identity through incorporation of Japanese religio-aesthetic elements in their verse. Collectively, their works help shift the focus from a national to a postnational identity that enables both a regional and a transnational notion of Northern Irish identity to coexist.
Twentieth-century American literature; twentieth-century British and Irish literature; rhetoric and composition; Literary perspectives on the modern world; analytical writing; first-year composition.
Recent Project: Collaborated with Ronda Leathers Dively on developing exercises for an instructor's manual supporting her textbook, Invention and Craft A Guide to College Writing.
“Overlooking and Overlooked: Anglo-Irish Angles of Vision.” Tokyo Junshin Women’s College Bulletin (2000):7-19.
“Paralysis and Efflorescence in James Joyce’s ‘Eveline’.” Tokyo Junshin Women’s College Bulletin (1998):97-111.
“Reading Contrapuntally.” Tokyo Junshin Women’s College Bulletin (1997):47-55.
“Byways: An Irish Perspective.” Tokyo Junshin Women’s College Bulletin (1996):27-42.
“An Irish Dialectic: A Reading of Seamus Heaney’s Seeing Things.” Tokyo Junshin Women’s College Bulletin (1995):21-31.
“Translation as A Profound Act: A Reading Of Seamus Heaney’s The Cure At Troy.” Tokyo Junshin Women’s College Bulletin (1994):55-61.
