#  Kelly Mee Rich 

Associate Professor of English

 

 

 



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 Education: B.A., Amherst College (2008)  
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2016)

 Interests: 20th- and 21st-century British and Anglophone literatures; the novel; wars and postwars; law and the humanities; modernism; gender and sexuality studies; transnational kinship; infrastructure.

 Selected Works: *States of Repair: Imagining Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel*, currently under contract with Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series, Oxford University Press; “On Rereading Kazuo Ishiguro,” introduction to special issue on “Ishiguro After the Nobel” co-edited with Chris Holmes, *Modern Fiction Studies* 67.1 (March 2021), 1-18; “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; “Nowhere’s Safe: Ruinous Reconstruction in *The Girls of Slender Means*,” *ELH* 83.4 (Winter 2016): 1185-1209; “‘Look in the Gutter’: Interiority and Infrastructuralism in *Never Let Me Go*,” *MFS: Modern Fiction Studies* 61.4 (Winter 2015): 631-651.



 

 

 





 

 

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