Kelly M. Rich is
Assistant Professor of
English and Creative Writing
at Wellesley College.
Her first book, States of Repair: The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel (Oxford University Press, 2023), studies Britain’s transition from warfare to welfare and its influence on the literary imagination.
She is currently developing her second book project, Children of Conflict: Transnational Adoption and Cultural Form, which explores how transnational adoption has figured as a form of postwar reparation from the mid-twentieth century to today.
Her work has appeared in journals including ELH, Law, Culture, and the Humanities, and Contemporary Literature, and a special issue on Kazuo Ishiguro that she co-edited for Modern Fiction Studies with Chris Holmes. She also edited the MLA prize-winning volume The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure: Race, Affect, Environment (Northwestern University Press, December 2022) with co-editors Nicole M. Rizzuto and Susan Zieger.
CV available here.
[image: Green Leaves, Paule Marrot]