ALICE

KELLY

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I am currently a Gardiner Fellow at New-York Historical Society and a Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford. I was previously the Harmsworth Junior Research Fellow in the History of America and World War One at the Rothermere American Institute and Corpus Christi College at Oxford, followed by a one-year Lectureship at the University of Sussex where I won the Extra Mile Teaching Award for my teaching.

My research focuses on early twentieth-century literary and cultural history in Britain and America. My book Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2020. My critical edition of Edith Wharton’s 1915 text Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort was published in 2015. My current book project focuses on New York modernism in the early 1920s.

I have previously published on Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield, war letters, and First World War nurses. I have written about an unknown war story by Edith Wharton and newly discovered letters by an American First World War nurse for the Times Literary Supplement. I have written about the film They Shall Not Grow Old in The Conversation and reviewed the Making a New World season at Imperial War Museums in the TLS. I wrote about the fire in Notre Dame Cathedral the night it happened. In December 2019 I discussed Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence on BBC Radio 3.

In August 2017 I was the Corpus Christi-Huntington Exchange Fellow at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, California. In Spring 2018 I was a Remarque Visiting Fellow at the Remarque Institute at New York University.

During the 2017-18 academic year, I was the recipient of a British Academy Rising Stars Engagement Award for 'Cultures and Commemorations of War: An Interdisciplinary Seminar', a series of workshops which consider the practices and politics of war memory across time. I have written about the series on the Oxford Arts blog, the British Academy blog and in Times Higher Education. The series has continued thanks to grants from the US Embassy/BAAS and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

As well as my academic role at Oxford, I am interested in Postgraduate and Early Career issues and healthy writing practices. I established and lead the twice-weekly TORCH Academic Writing Group for PhD students and Early Career Researchers, based at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. I wrote about the success of the group in Times Higher Education. I have written for Inside Higher Ed, as well as a four-part blog series on the UK academic job market for The Professor Is In: Please, Sir, I Want Some More Employment: Applying for UK Academic Jobs.

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