Rate My Professor Stephen Kelly

Kelly's scholarly interests include medieval studies, contemporary literary and cultural theory, philosophical hermeneutics, memorialising traditions, historiographical writing, digital humanities, and visual studies. He is co-investigator on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project Whittington's Gift: Reconstructing the Lost Common Library of London's Guildhall (2020-2023), collaborating with Dr. Ryan Perry (University of Kent), and was previously co-investigator on the AHRC-funded Geographies of Orthodoxy: Mapping English Pseudo-Bonaventuran Lives of Christ (2007-2010). His major publications feature co-edited volumes such as Imagining the Book (Brepols, 2005, with J.J. Thompson), Devotional Culture in Late Medieval England and Europe: Diverse Imaginations of Christ’s Life (Brepols, 2014, with Ryan Perry), and The Pseudo-Bonaventuran Lives of Christ: Exploring the Middle English Tradition (Brepols, 2013). Recent and forthcoming works include chapters like “A low murmur of provisional consent”: John Berger and translation (Routledge, 2025), and edited books Multiplicacioun of manye bookis: entangled communities, texts and manuscripts in later medieval London and beyond (Liverpool University Press, 2024) and ‘Meke reverence and devocyon’: a reader in late medieval English religious writing (Liverpool University Press, 2024). For his teaching excellence, he received the Queen's Student Union Education Award for Most Inspiring/Motivating teacher (2016) and a Queen's University Teaching Award (student-nominated category, 2019). Kelly has contributed expert commentary to BBC programmes, including "Helen Waddell: Living the Past" and "Piers the Plowman Revisited," and acts as an expert reviewer for funding councils.