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Dr. Sean J. Kelly teaches courses in American literature, literary theory, and composition. His primary research interests focus on nineteenth-century American literature and culture. Dr. Kelly has recently published scholarly articles on the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, and Edgar Allan Poe. Recent courses include: ENG 281: American Literature I, ENG 218: Writing Practicum, ENG 398: African American Literature and Aesthetics, ENG 397: Seminar in Nathaniel Hawthorne, ENG 337: American Romantics, and ENG 352: Studies in the American Novel. Along with Dr. Mischelle Anthony, Dr. Kelly serves as a faculty advisor for the Manuscript Society, a creative writing collective that produces Manuscript, an annual publication that showcases student creative writing and visual art.

Before transitioning to English as a major, Dr. Kelly studied jazz guitar and music composition at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. After becoming an English major, he applied his interest in jazz aesthetics to a study of African American authors, including Toni Morrison and Amiri Baraka. Dr. Kelly received his M.A degree from the University of Pittsburgh (2001) and his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo (2008).

Peer Reviewed Articles

• Sean J. Kelly, 鈥溾�楴othing beneath鈥攁ll?鈥�: Rebecca Harding Davis鈥� Critique of Possessive Individualism in Life in the Iron Mills.鈥� ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture 68.2 (2022): 261-302.
• Sean J. Kelly, 鈥溾�楾here is a place where terror is good鈥�: Aeschylus鈥檚 Oresteian Myth of Law and Lacan鈥檚 Theory of the Four Discourses.鈥� Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 23.5 (2018): 112-128.
• Sean J. Kelly, 鈥淔acing the Other: the Role of the 鈥榃hite-Faced鈥� Soldier in Whitman鈥檚 鈥楻econciliation.鈥欌�� The Explicator 74.3 (2016): 192-195.
• Sean J. Kelly, 鈥淪taging Nothing: the Figure of Das Ding in Poe鈥檚 鈥楾he Raven.鈥欌�� The Edgar Allan Poe Review 17.2 (2016): 116-141. 
• Sean J. Kelly, 鈥淪ymbols of Illusion in Nathanael West鈥檚 Miss Lonelyhearts.鈥� The Explicator 73.4 (2015): 301-305.
• Sean J. Kelly, 鈥溾�業 blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity鈥�: Penning Perversion in Poe鈥檚 鈥楾he Black Cat.鈥欌�� The Edgar Allan Poe Review 13.2 (2012): 81-108.
• Sean J. Kelly, 鈥淎merican Idle: Washington Irving, Authorship, and the Echoes of Native American Myth in 鈥楻ip Van Winkle.鈥欌�� Short Story 19.1 (2011): 72-87.
• Sean J. Kelly, 鈥溾�楬awthorne鈥檚 鈥楳aterial Ghosts鈥�: Photographic Realism and Liminal Selfhood in The House of the Seven Gables.鈥� Papers on Language and Literature 47.3 (2011): 227-260.
• Reprinted in Bloom鈥檚 Modern Critical Interpretations of The House of the Seven Gables, New York: Chelsea House, 2013. ebook.
• Sean J. Kelly, 鈥�The Scarlet Letter,鈥� Masterplots II: Christian Literature. Vol. 3. Ed. John K. Roth. New York: Salem P., 2007. 1549-1552.

Reviews

• Sean J. Kelly, 鈥溾�楢 new way of reading Poe鈥�: Reflections on G.R. Thompson鈥檚 Poe鈥檚 Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales.鈥� The Edgar Allan Poe Review 23.1 (2022): 103-111. (by invitation)
• Sean J. Kelly, Rev. of Secular Lyric: The Modernization of the Poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson by John Michael. The Edgar Allan Poe Review 20.2 (2019): 308-319.
• Sean J. Kelly, Rev. of Poe and the Idea of Music: Failure, Transcendence, and Dark Romanticism by Charity McAdams. The Edgar Allan Poe Review 19.2 (2018): 290-297.
• Sean J. Kelly, Rev. of The Annotated Poe by Kevin J. Hayes. The Edgar Allan Poe Review 17.1 (2016).
• Sean J. Kelly, Rev. of Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 by Shirley Samuels. Boundary 2 (b2o review): An International Journal of Literature and Culture. (2014) Web.

Non-Peer Reviewed Articles

• Sean J. Kelly, 鈥淐laudia鈥檚 Blues: Blues, Jazz, and the Affirmation of Self in Morrison鈥檚 The Bluest Eye.鈥� Featured Article for the Blues and Jazz Dance Book Club. (2017) Web.

• 鈥淎merican Idle: Irving, Authorship, and Echoes of Native American Myth in 鈥楻ip Van Winkle,鈥欌�� Northeast Modern Language Association Convention (NeMLA), New Brunswick, NJ, April 7-10, 2011.
• 鈥淎 Fearful Sympathy: Poe鈥檚 Metaphysics of Dissolution in Eureka and 鈥楾he Fall of the House of Usher,鈥欌�� Poe Studies Association Third Annual Edgar Allan Poe Conference: The Bicentennial, Philadelphia, PA, October 8-11, 2009.
• 鈥淭he Art of Sympathy: Hawthorne and the Pre-Raphaelites,鈥� Northeast Modern Language Association Convention (NeMLA), Boston, MA, February 26-March 1,2008.
• 鈥淗awthorne and the Obscene: Radical Otherness and 鈥楾he Minister鈥檚 Black Veil,鈥欌�� Northeast Modern Language Association Convention (NeMLA), Buffalo, NY, April 10-13, 2008.
• 鈥淧oe and Ideological Anamorphosis: Sentimental Violence and 鈥楾he Black Cat," Modern Language Association Conference (MLA). Chicago, IL, December 27-31, 2007.
• "Allegory and Alienation: The Problem of Language in Emerson," Northeast Modern Language Association Convention (NeMLA), Baltimore, MD, 2007
• "The Human as Instrument of Power: Rethinking Subjection in Response to Cindy Patton鈥檚 Analysis of the National Pedagogy for Safe-Sex,鈥� 2001 Popular Culture Association (PCA), Philadelphia, PA, 2001.
• 鈥淕补锄颈苍驳 Olympia: Interpellation and the Social Construction of the Visual,鈥� Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery (SISSI), Colorado Springs, CO, 2000.