Professional Career

Michael Kelly joined the faculty in 2004-05.

Fields of Interest

• 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy (esp. Husserl, Classical Phenomenology and Bergson)
• Self-awareness and time-consciousness
• History of Philosophy (esp. the emotions, moral psychology and ethics)

Current Teaching

• Perspectives I: Western Culture (core)
• Feelings, Intentionality, Emotion (Fall 2010)
• Introduction to Phenomenology (Spring 2009)

Some Recent Publications

• Bergson and Phenomenology (London: Palgrave, 2010) 
• "L'ecart: Merleau-Ponty's Separation from Husserl, or Absolute Time Constituting Consciousness," in Merleau-Ponty at the Limits of Art, Perception and Religion, ed. N. Deroo and K. Semon (London: Continuum, 2010)
• "A Phenomenological Defense of Bergson's 'Idealistic Concession'," Epoche, vol. 14, no. 2, Spring 2010