Colm Joseph Kelly

Associate Professor, Sociology (1994)
BA (Trinity College, Dublin), MA (UNB), PhD (York)

email: kelly@stu.ca


Courses Regularly Taught

Sociology 1006 - Introduction to Sociology
Sociology 3013 - Classical Sociological Theory
Sociology 3023 - Modern Sociological Theory
Sociology 3533 - Special topics "Derrida and the Future of the Social."
Sociology 4013 - Senior Seminar: The Modern University
Sociology 4033 - Advanced Sociological Theory

Major Publications

"Affirming the Indeterminable: Deconstruction, Sociology and Tobias Wolff's 'Say Yes.'" Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. 32.1, 1999: 149-166.

""If I say: 'The child has eaten enough:'" Durkheim's Pedagogy as Promise." Current Perspectives in Social Theory, V. 11 (1992): 251-274.

"Methods of Reading and the Discipline of Sociology: the case of Durkheim Studies." Canadian Journal of Sociology, 15 (1990): 301-324.

"Diversions and Homecomings: Cultural Nationalism and the recent drama of Brian Friel." Studies: A Quarterly Irish Review, 76 (1987): 452-462.

Non-refereed publications:

Articles:

"Discourses of and against the Commercialization of Univer-sities." Teaching Perspectives, St. Thomas University, Spring 2000.

"The accent of the other." The Nashwaak Review, no. 6-7, Fall 1999.

"People from Everywhere and from Nowhere: Fragments from the Diary of an Immigrant." The Nashwaak Review, v. 2, no. 1, 1996.

"Crossing Frontiers." The Nashwaak Review, v. 2, no. 2, 1996.

Research Interests

Deconstruction, especially the work of Jacques Derrida; ethnomethodology; social theory.


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