Michael J. Kelly

Dr. Michael J. Kelly is Visiting Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University). His research intersects the history of the late antique and earlier medieval Mediterranean, particularly Visigothic Iberia, with the philosophy of history and critical theory. Michael received his Ph.D. in History in 2015 from the University of Leeds, where he wrote a thesis titled "Writing History, Narrating Fulfillment." Michael is General Director of the international open-access project "Networks and Neighbours" and, with Dolores Castro, General Editor of the associated digital series "Visigothic Symposia." He is also Co-Editor, with Paulo Pachá, of Capitalism’s Past, and a founding editor of Badiou Studies. He has published works in history, philosophy and literature, including Theories of History: History Read Across the Humanities, edited with Arthur Rose (London: Bloomsbury, 2018). Prior to Binghamton, he was Associate Lecturer of Early Medieval History at the University of York (UK) and taught critical historiography at Leeds Trinity University.