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Kelly Mee RichEnglish Department, Harvard University12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138rich@fas.harvard.edu EmploymentHarvard University 2016Assistant Professor, Department of English Haverford College 2015Visiting Instructor, Peace, Justice and Human Rights program (Spring semester)Education University of Pennsylvania Ph.D., English Literature (2016)M.A., English Literature (2012)Dissertation: “States of Repair: Institutions of Private Life in the Postwar Anglophone Novel”Committee: Jed Esty and Paul Saint-Amour (co-chairs), Heather Love, James EnglishAmherst College B.A., double major in English & Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought (2008), summa cum laudePublicationsPeer-Reviewed Journal Articles2016“Nowhere’s Safe: Ruinous Reconstruction in The Girls of Slender Means.” ELH 83.4 (Winter 2016): 1185-1209.2015“‘Look in the Gutter’: Interiority and Infrastructuralism in Never Let Me Go.” MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 61.4 (Winter 2015): 631-651. 2014“Troubling Humanities: Literary Jurisprudence and Crimes Against Humanity in Remains of the Day and Atonement.” Law, Culture, and the Humanities 12.3 (July 2016): 496-508. Published online 18 July 2014.2011Review of Modernism and Race, Ed. Len Platt. Cambridge: 2011. Textual Practice 25.6 (December 2011): 1109-1113. BooksIn progressStates of Repair: Warfare and Welfare in the Postwar Anglophone Novel (book)PresentationsConference Papers and Invited Talks2019“Orwell et al.” Panel on Anglophone Literature and the Left. MLA. Chicago: January 2019. (upcoming)2019“Concretopia: High-Rise Infrastructures and Downward Mobility.” MLA. Chicago: January 2019. (upcoming)2018“Two Paths of the Media Novel.” Roundtable on The Novel and Media. Novel Theory Seminar. Mahindra Humanities Center. Cambridge: May 2018. (invited speaker)2017“How the Novel Imagines Repair.” New Faculty Lunch, Mahindra Humanities Center. Cambridge: November 2017.2017“The Novel of the Century.” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. Berkeley: October 2017.2017“‘Make It Anew’: On Literary Reconstruction.” Seminar on Postwar Modernism. Modernist Studies Association. Amsterdam: August 2017.2017“Hollinghurst’s Queer Corpus.” Modernist Studies Association. Amsterdam: August 2017.2016“A Common Wealth: From Warfare to Welfare.” Seminar on Modernism and Political Institutions. Modernist Studies Association. Pasadena: November 2016.2016“Comparative Postwars.” Modernist Studies Association. Pasadena: November 2016.2016“Beyond Two Mothers: Generational Shifts in Korean Adoption Literature.” Association for Asian American Studies. Miami: April 2016.2015“Zadie Smith’s NW: An Exercise in Modernist Dissent.” Seminar on Untimely Dissent. Modernist Studies Association. Boston: November 2015.2015“On Closure: Trying the Past in the Postwar British Novel.” Modern Language Association. Vancouver: January 2015.2014“A Room of One’s Own? Reviewing Modernist Interiority in The Heat of the Day.” Seminar on Representing the Second World War, Genocide, the Holocaust. Modernist Studies Association. Pittsburgh: November 2014.2013“Dalloway Redux: Postwar Epiphany in The Girls of Slender Means.” Modernist Studies Association. Brighton: August 2013.2013“The Reparative Work of Human Rights in Anil’s Ghost.” Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and Humanities. London: March 2013.2011“On Violence and Exceptional Interest: The Law, The Novel, and the Photograph.” Seminar on Modernism and Violence. Modernist Studies Association. Buffalo: October 2011.2011“‘The Experience of Lawfulness’: Injury, Responsibility, and Reparation in Eichmann in Jerusalem and Waiting for the Barbarians.” Northeast MLA. New Brunswick: April 2011.Invited Formal Responses2017Faculty Guest, GSAS Gender and Sexuality Workshop. Harvard University. Cambridge: December 2017.2017Invited Respondent for Panaesthetics: A Colloquium on the Visual Arts, Literature and Music, GSAS Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop, Teresa Trout’s paper on “The Panaesthetic Country House Novel.” Harvard University. Cambridge: April 2017.2014Discussant for Violent Means, Graduate Humanities Forum symposium, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: February 2014.2013Invited Moderator for Queer Method conference, panel on “Archive, Medium, Zine.” University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: October 2013.2011Invited Respondent for Historicizing Sex conference, panel on “Writing Race and Gender,” University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: March 2011.Conferences and Panels Organized2018Keyword Seminar Organizer on “Infrastructure.” Society for Novel Studies. Ithaca: May 2018.2015Conference Organizer (with Kalyan Nadiminti), Locating Post45, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: March 2015.Grants, Fellowships, and Awards2018External Faculty Fellow, Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Wellesley College2017Anne and Jim Rothenberg Fund for Humanities Research, Harvard University2016Diane Hunter Prize for best dissertation, University of Pennsylvania2015-2016Mellon/ACLS Diss. Completion Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies2015William Patrick Day Prize for best graduate student essay, University of Pennsylvania2015AAUW Dissertation Fellowship, alternate2015Columbia University Society of Fellows, first alternate2013-2014Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Research Fellow, Penn Humanities Forum2009-2013Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania2012Hopkinson Fellowship, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania2010 & 2012Amherst Memorial Fellowship for Graduate Study2009Henry P. Field Fellowship for Graduate Study2009Fulbright Scholarship, English Teaching Assistant in Korea (declined)2008 Robert Cover Prize, Amherst College Department of LJST2008Institute for Recruitment of Teachers Associate, Phillips Academy Andover TeachingHarvard UniversityEnglish 188GF, Global Fictions (lecture, with graduate section)English 90WR, War and Its Representations (seminar)English 167BL, Post-45 British Literature (lecture)English 90LL, Literature and Law (seminar)English 91R, Privacy in Law and Literature (independent study)English 295LI, Literary Institutions (graduate seminar)Haverford College“Literature and Law: Memory, Violence, Repair,” English Department and Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Program, Spring 2015University of Pennsylvania“Utopia/Dystopia,” College of Liberal and Professional Studies, Summer 2014“Introduction to Asian American Literature and Culture,” English and Asian American Studies Program, Fall 2013 (TA)“Literature and Law: Imagining Repair After 1945,” English Department, Fall 2012“The Trial in Literature,” Critical Writing Program, Fall 2011 and Spring 2012“The Vietnam War in Literature and Film,” English Department, Spring 2011 (TA)“American Bestsellers,” English Department, Fall 2010 (Grader)Research and Teaching Interests: Twentieth- and twenty-first century British and Anglophone literature; modernism; the novel; law and literature; gender and sexuality studies; trauma studies; literatures of war; transnational kinship; speculative fiction.Languages: French (reading), German (reading)Institutional Service and AffiliationsDepartmental Service, Harvard UniversityAssociate Director of Undergraduate Studies (Fall 2017, Fall 2018)Curriculum Committee (Fall 2017, Fall 2018)Undergraduate Affairs Committee (2016-17, Fall 2017, Fall 2018)Faculty Co-Sponsor, 20th- and 21st-Century Graduate Colloquium (Fall 2018)Faculty Co-Sponsor, British and Anglophone Literature Graduate Colloquium (2016-17, Fall 2017)Graduate General Exams Committee (2016-17, 2017-18)Freshman Reads Faculty Sponsor (Spring 2017, Fall 2017)Undergraduate & Graduate Essay Prizes Committee (2016-17)Graduate Mock Interviews Committee (2016-17)University Service, Harvard UniversityMember, Steering Committee, Schelsinger Library’s Long 19th Amendment Project, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2018-19)Member, Board of Freshmen Advisors (2017-18, 2018-19)Faculty Leader, Conversation on the Liberal Arts (Fall 2017)Advising, Harvard UniversityUndergraduate Senior Thesis AdvisorCharlotte Anrig (2017-18)Madison Gonzalez (Fall 2017)Mia Kerr (2018-19)Clarissa Klein (2017-18)Miranda Sadler (2018-19)Undergraduate Mellon Mays Fellow Advisor: Cherline Bazile (2017-18)Graduate Fields Exam CommitteeCecilia Mancuso, EnglishSophia Mao, EnglishJonathan Karp, American StudiesGraduate Dissertation CommitteesCarrie (Zhe) Geng, Comparative LiteratureCecilia Mancuso, EnglishLaura Nelson, American StudiesRefereeReferee for article manuscripts for ASAP/Journal; of book proposals for literary studies at RoutledgeProfessional MembershipsAmerican Comparative Literature AssociationAssociation for the Study of the Arts in the PresentModern Language AssociationModernist Studies AssociationSociety for Novel StudiesAdditional Experience and Service2017Consulted for Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s PBS series on WWI2013Participant in Graduate Student Workshop, ASLCH ConferenceFall 2012Certificate in Teaching and Learning, University of Pennsylvania 2008-9Writing Fellow, Amherst College Writing CenterReferencesProfessor Jed Esty, English, University of Pennsylvania, esty@english.upenn.eduProfessor Paul K. Saint-Amour, English, University of Pennsylvania, psain@english.upenn.eduProfessor Heather K. Love, English, University of Pennsylvania, loveh@english.upenn.eduProfessor James English, English, University of Pennsylvania, jenglish@english.upenn.eduProfessor David L. Eng, English, University of Pennsylvania, deng@english.upenn.eduProfessor Jill Stauffer, Peace, Justice, and Human Rights, Haverford College, jstauffe@haverford.edu ................
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