Adam Kelly joined University College Dublin in January 2020 as Associate Professor of English, having previously taught at the University of York and at Harvard University. He is author of American Fiction in Transition: Observer Hero Narrative, the 1990s, and Postmodernism (Bloomsbury 2013), co-editor of recent special issues of Comparative Literature Studies and Open Library of the Humanities, and co-founder and co-chair of the Post45 UK research network. His research in literary studies focuses primarily on normative concepts including sincerity, complicity, debt, and freedom. His monograph-in-progress is American Fiction at the Millennium: Neoliberalism and the New Sincerity.
