Joseph Patrick Kelly
Professor Department of English College of Charleston 66 George St. Charleston, SC 29424-0001 phone: 843-953-4815; fax: 843-953-3180; e-mail: [email protected]
Education University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Ph. D. in English literature, August 1992 M.A. in English literature, May 1986
University of Dallas, Irving, Texas B.A. cum laude; May 1984; Texas Scholar
Refereed Journal Publications
The Evolution of Slave Ideology in Simms's The Yemassee and Woodcraft," Simms Review, 20 (Summer/Winter 2012): 51-66.
"Joyce's Exile: The Prodigal Son," James Joyce Quarterly, 48 (Summer 2011): 603-635.
"Joyce in Hollywood in the 1930s: a Biographical Essay," James Joyce Quarterly, 45 (Spring-Summer 2008): 521-536.
"Henry Laurens: the Southern Man of Conscience in History," South Carolina Historical Magazine 107 (April 2006): 82-123.
"Charleston's Bishop John England and American Slavery," New Hibernia Review 5 (Winter 2001): 48-56.
"A Defense of Danis Rose," James Joyce Quarterly 35 (Summer/Fall 1998): 811- 824.
"Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Gender Roles, and the Decline of Devotional Catholicism," with Timothy Kelly, Journal of Social History 32(Fall 1998): 5-26.
"American Catholics and the Discourse of Fear," with Timothy Kelly, Chapter 13 of History of Emotions, ed. Peter Stearns and Jan Lewis. New York: New York University Press, 1998: 259-279.
"Remembering the Yahoos," Working Papers in Irish Studies 97-2 (1997): 1-11.
"Joyce's Marriage Cycle," Studies in Short Fiction 32 (Summer 1995): 367-378.
"Pound's Joyce," The James Joyce Literary Supplement, 7 (Spring 1993): 21-23.
"Stanislaus Joyce, Ellsworth Mason, and Richard Ellmann: The Making of an Author" Joyce Studies Annual 1992, pp. 98-140.
"Searching the Dark Alley: New Historicism and Social History," with Timothy Kelly, Journal of Social History 25 (1992): 677-694.
Books
America's Longest Siege: Slavery, Dissent, and the Long March to the Civil War, forthcoming from Overlook Press.
Seagull Reader: Plays. 2nd edition. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2008. (First edition, 2002)
Seagull Reader: Poetry. 2nd edition. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2008. (First edition, 2001)
Seagull Reader: Fiction. 2nd edition. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2008. (First edition, 2001)
Seagull Reader: Essays. 2nd edition. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2008. (First edition, 2001)
Our Joyce: From Outcast to Icon, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998.
Other Publications
Review of Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive, Maria McGarrity and Claire A. Culleton, eds., forthcoming in James Joyce Literary Supplement
Review of Self Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, & the Forms of Modern Literature, by Max Saunders, James Joyce Quarterly 48 (Fall 2010): 191-196.
"Saving Joyce from the Professors," review of Declan Kiberd's Ulysses and Us: the Art of Everyday Living, in South Carolina Review 43 (2010): 263-267.
Review of Joseph Brooker’s Joyce’s Critics Transitions in Reading and Culture, in James Joyce Literary Supplement, 20 (Fall 2006): 13.
“Kabbala of the Spin Top Vehicle,” [an essay] Vocabula Review, October 2005.
“Henry Laurens,” in Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary, revised edition. Ed. Joseph M. Flora, LSU Press.
Seagull Reader: Literature. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2005.
Review of Morton Levitt’s Joyce and the Joyceans, in James Joyce Quarterly, 2005.
Seagull Reader: Plays. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2004.
"Jonathan Swift," Encyclopedia of Ireland. New York: Macmillan, 2004.
Review of Eloise Knowlton’s Joyce, Joyceans, and the Rhetoric of Citation, in James Joyce Quarterly 38 (Spring/Summer 2001): 523-527.
"Hugh Kenner, Gentleman Scholar," New Hibernia Review 5(Summer 2001): 145-149.
Review of Lawrence Rainey's Institutions of Modernism, in The James Joyce Literary Supplement.
“The Denial,” [a short story] in the American Catholic, October 1999: 9.
Review of Paul Vanderham's James Joyce and Censorship: The Trials of Ulysses, in James Joyce Quarterly, 37 (Fall 1999/Winter 2000): 275-280.
"Irish in Charleston" Encyclopedia of Irish in America. Michael Glazier, ed. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000.
Review essay of Kathleen Ferris's James Joyce and the Burden of Disease, James Joyce Quarterly 33 (Summer 1996): 626-634.
Review essay of Jeffrey Segall's Joyce in America: Cultural Politics and the Trials of "Ulysses," in James Joyce Quarterly 31 (Summer 1994): 599-606.
Review essay of David Pierce's James Joyce's Ireland," in James Joyce Quarterly 30 (Spring 1993): 515-520.
Review of Peter Costello's James Joyce: The Years of Growth, 1882-1915, Modern Fiction Studies 39 (Summer 1993): 399-401.
Panel Presentations
"Was Joyce a Racist?" International James Joyce Conference, Charleston, 2013
"Simms, Woodcraft, and the New Paternalism," Southern American Studies Association, Charleston, February 2013
"John England and the Vatican's Haitian Mission," Caribbean Irish Connections Conference, Barbados, November 2012
"Who Killed George Joyce, or Why the Sow Ate her Farrow," International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, June 2012.
"Slavery, Simms, and The Yemassee," American Literature Association, San Francisco, May 2012.
"Angelina Grimké and the Discourse of Slavery in the South," Civil War: Global Conflict, Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World, 3-5 March 2011
"Sins of the Father: John Stanislaus and James Joyce," XXII International James Joyce Symposium, Charles University, Prague, 13-18 June 2010.
“Angelina Grimké and the Fate of Abolition,” Southern American Studies Association, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, February 12-14, 2009.
“Reisman’s Screenplay: Joyce’s Last Attempt to Film Ulysses,” International James Joyce Conference, Austin, Texas, June 13-17, 2007.
Imagining Ireland in the Atlantic World, panel chair, The Irish in the Atlantic World, Charleston, SC 28 February 2007.
“An Early Screenplay of Joyce’s Ulysses,” Southern Regional American Conference for Irish Studies, February 2006, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
“Joyce in Hollywood,” Southern Regional American Conference for Irish Studies, February 2005, University of St. Thomas, Houston
“The James Joyce Pub,” International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin Ireland, June 2004
"The Failure of John England," American Conference for Irish Studies, New York, June 2001
Perspectives on Denmark Vesey Symposium, College of Charleston, March 2001. Host committee member and panel presenter.
"Colonial Discourse in Representations of Denmark Vesey," 8th Annual British Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies Conference, Savannah, 22-24 February 2001
"Mepkin Plantation and Henry Laurens," Plantations of the Mind: Marketing Myths and Memories in the Heritage Tourism Industry, Charleston, 6-9 April 2000
Images of America in Irish Literature, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, November 1998, Panel chair and organizer
"Whose Joyce Is He? The Rose Edition of Ulysses" The University of Tulsa's Twelfth Annual Comparative Literature Symposium, Tulsa, March 1998.
"Joyce's Catholicism," International James Joyce Symposium, Toronto, June 1997.
"Remembering the Yahoos," Southern Regional American Conference for Irish Studies, University of Tennessee--Chattanooga, March 1997.
"Mary Shelley on the Irish," Southern Regional American Conference for Irish Studies, University of North Carolina, 15-17 February 1996.
"Dubliners and the Celtic Revival: The Irish Homestead," Tenth Annual Miami J'yce Conference, University of Miami, 1-3 February 1996.
"Ernst's Joyce," South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, October 1995.
"Reputation History v. Literary Biography," Miami J'yce Conference, Miami, February 1995.
Chair, Dubliners Panel, Miami J'yce Conference, Miami, February 1995.
"Re-Forming the Major: Intellectual Focus and Integrative Learning," 81st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges & Universities, San Francisco, 18-21 January 1995.
"The Founding of the James Joyce Industry," International James Joyce Symposium, Seville, Spain, June 1994.
Presentation, AAC&U Workshop on Strengthening and Assessing the Academic Major, Charleston, South Carolina, 15 April 1994
"Senior Essay Assessment Instrument," Poster Session, Sixth Annual South Carolina Higher Education Assessment Conference, Myrtle Beach, 28-30 October 1993.
"Joyce's Marriage Cycle," American Conference for Irish Studies, Tulsa, Oklahoma, February 1993.
"Pound's Joyce," Joyce Birthday Conference, Miami, January 1993.
Roundtable Panel on Joyce Biography, Joyce Birthday Conference, Miami, January 1993.
"Dublin Politics in Dubliners: Joyce the Propagandist," 13th International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, June 1992.
"Stanislaus Joyce and Richard Ellmann: The Making of an Author," James Joyce Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, June 1991
Special Panel on Biography, respondent to Ira Nadel, Morris Beja, and Thomas Staley, James Joyce Conference in Vancouver, June 1991
"Liturgical Parody in Dubliners," Philadelphia James Joyce Symposium, June 1989
Competitive Grants/Awards
College of Charleston Service Award, 2013 Leo I. Higdon Outstanding Leadership Award, 2012 Dean’s Discretionary Fund, Spring 2010 (travel to Cornell Library) NEH Summer Seminar, James Joyce’s Ulysses: Texts and Contexts, Dublin, Ireland, 25 June-4 August 2008 (also supported by C of C R&D grant) College of Charleston R&D grant, 2007 Undergraduate Research Summer Grant, CofC, 2004 Murray Fellowship (C of C), 2003 College of Charleston R&D grant, 1999 Departmental research and development grant, 1997 and 1999 South Carolina Humanities Council Mini-grant, 1995 Mellon Fellowship, 1994 NEH summer stipend, 1993 College of Charleston R&D grant, 1993 (declined) International James Joyce Foundation Fellowship, 1992
Recent College Service (selected items)
Faculty Senator August 2011- Honors Committee, Chair August 2011-August 2012 President's Commission on Diversity, Co-director May 2010- Campus Climate Subcommittee, Chair August 2011- Safe Zone February 2012- Mentoring Matters Mentor March 2012- Ad hoc T&P Group Fall 2011-Spring 2012 EHHP T&P Guideline Committee 2011 Irish Film Festival, Co-organizer 2010-2012 Labor Day Committee 2007-2012 Search Committee, Director of Diversity Education September 2011-November 2011 Priorities and Planning Committee August 2009-May 2011 Faculty Club Executive Committee August 2008-May 2011 Chair May 2010-May 2011 MLK Day, Faculty helper February 2011 Search Committee, Director of Diversity Education September 2010-November 2010 Speaker of the Faculty May 2007-May 2010 MLK Day Committee 2007-2009 Working Group on Alcohol and Illicit Drug Testing Policy February 2010-May 2010 Commencement/Honorary Degree Committee August 2009-May 2010 Task Force on GLBT issues October 2008-May 2010 Sustainability Committee May 2008-May 2010 Academic Forum, Co-Chair August 2007-May 2010
Professional Memberships
American Studies Association International James Joyce Foundation AAUP
Other Professional Activities
International James Joyce Conference, Co-director, June 2011-June 2013 Faculty Technology Institute, March 2008 Speaker of the Faculty, College of Charleston, 2007-2009 Director of Graduate Studies in English, College of Charleston, 2002-2005. Faculty Technology Institutue, College of Charleston, 2003. Chair, Parents Advisory Board, Miles Early Childhood Development Center, 2002- 2003 Host committee member, Perspectives on Denmark Vesey Symposium, March 2001 Co-Director, Millenial Joyce Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, 1999. Writing consultant, NASA/EPSCoR grant proposal, 1995 Director, Southern Regional Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, Charleston, South Carolina, 1993 Consultant, HarperCollins publishers, 1993 (comparative reviews of The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers 3e, The Holt Handbook 3e, and Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers 3e) Research assistant for John Ruszkiewicz, 1991-1992 (general assistance on The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers, especially with exercise answer key) Consultant, HarperCollins publishers, 1992 (prepared a teacher's manual to accompany The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers)