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Van Kelly
Professor of French and Francophone Literature, University of Kansas
Van Kelly is a professor of French and Francophone literature at the University of Kansas, where he directs the KU French Center of Excellence. His research focuses on the poetry and Resistance of René Char, the autofictions of Jorge Semprún, the narratives of J.-M. G. Le Clézio and Patrick Modiano, and political and cultural urban space in the work of the Senegalese writers and filmmakers Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ousmane Sembene, Boubacar Boris Diop, Ken Bugul, Alain Gomis, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, and Felwine Sarr.
He is the author of a monograph, Pascalian Fictions: Antagonism and Absent Agency in the Wager and Other Fragments, co-editor of a volume on the epic, Epic and Epoch: Essays on the Interpretation and History of a Genre, and co-editor of two special issues, “Cinéma engagé: Activist Filmmaking in French and Francophone Contexts” (South Central Review) and “Literature Between Philosophy and History” (Romance Notes).