Professor
301.405.1356
rgkelly@umd.edu
R. Gordon Kelly's research interests continue to center
on two closely related issues in cultural studies. The first has to do
with conceptualizing the factors, and their interrelationships, that both
enable and constrain the production, distribution, selective transmission,
and reception of literature, broadly conceived. Such a framework should
be adequate theoretically, i.e. in terms of comprehensiveness and coherence,
as well as empirically, i.e. consistent with the known particulars. The
second issue has to do with the uses of literary works as evidence in
the service of cultural analysis.
Degrees:
Ph.D. American
Civilization (University of Iowa, 1970)
M.A. English & American Literature (Claremont Graduate School, 1962)
B.A. English (DePauw University, 1961)
Publications:
- "Children's Literature"
and "Historical Fiction" in Handbook of American Popular Culture,
ed. M. Thomas Inge (Greenwood Press, 1988).
- Edited Children's Periodicals
of the United States (Greenwood Press, 1984).
- Mystery
Fiction and Modern Life. University Press of Mississippi, 1998.
- "Literary and Cultural
Values in the Evaluation of Children's Literature." The Advocate 4 (Winter 1985): 84-100.
- "The Social Construction
of Reality: Implications for Future Directions in American Studies."
Prospects 8 (1984): 40-47.
- "Literature and the Historian."
American Quarterly 26 (1974): 141-59.
- Mother
Was a Lady: Self and Society in Selected American Children's Periodicals,
1865-1890. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1974.
Courses Taught:
Growing
Up American (undergraduate)
Literature and Society (undergraduate and graduate)
Critics of American Culture (undergraduate)
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