Aaron Kelly
Senior Lecturer
- English Literature
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3071
- Email: Aaron.Kelly@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
- English Literature
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
- Office Hours Semester 1: Thursdays 16.10pm
Address
- Street
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Room 2.37
50 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Background
Dr Aaron Kelly holds a BA (Hons), MA in Irish Writing and PhD from Queen’s University Belfast. He was Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow in Irish and Scottish Literature at the University from 2001-2004 and was appointed a lecturer in September 2004.
Research summary
Aaron’s research interests include modern contemporary Irish and British culture (including Irish-Scottish comparative studies), postcolonial and Marxist theory and practice, literatures of decolonization, popular cultural forms (especially crime fiction and film), working-class writing, migrant literature, theories of the novel, visual culture, anti-capitalism and critiques of modernity and postmodernity. He is happy to supervise in any of these areas. Current projects include a trilogy of books on class (one on contemporary British cinema, another on the history of working-class writing and a third on class and Irish literature), a monograph on globalization and neo-imperialism, and an archival recovery of lost working-class classics.
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Distortion, ideology, time: Proletarian aesthetics in the work of Lionel Britton
(25 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787441538.005
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
“A beacon-light to the oppressed of every land”: James Connolly and the work of the working-class intellectual
(12 pages)
In:
Irish Studies Review, vol. 24, pp. 1-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2016.1226674
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Habeas corpora: Trauma and event in the law of the postmodern
(20 pages)
In:
Irish Review, vol. 53, pp. 9-28
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
James Connolly's Stations
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Garlands of democracy
(11 pages)
In:
Edinburgh Review, vol. 141, pp. 72-82
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Dracula's Mirror: Class and Aesthetics in Irish Culture
In:
Irish Review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Elephants of the Future: Derry and the Promise of Culture
(6 pages)
In:
Fugitive Papers, vol. 4, pp. 16-21
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Ireland 2113
(1 page)
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
James Kelman: Politics and Aesthetics
Research output: › Book (Published) -
The Troubles with the Thriller: Northern Ireland, Political Violence and the Peace Process
(8 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (Published)