Kelly Fleming

Assistant Professor, General Faculty

Bryan Hall 140

Office Hours: 2-4 on Wednesday.
Specialties:

Restoration, 18C British, Gender and Sexuality Studies

DEGREES
PhD in English, University of Virginia, 2019.
 
MA in English, Boston College, 2013.
 
BFA in Writing, Literature, & Publishing, Emerson College, 2011.
 
 
SELECTED AWARDS
The Lewis Walpole Library / ASECS Library Fellowship, 2018.
 
Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2017–2018.
 
Buckner W. Clay Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Grant, 2017.
 
The Hemlow Prize in Burney Studies, 2013.
 
 
PUBLICATIONS
“The Politics of Sophia Western’s Muff,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 31 no.4 (Summer 2019).
 
The Time Traveler’s Guide to Restoration Britain by Ian Mortimer,” Restoration 43 no.1 (Summer 2019).
                       
“The Things of Masquerade in Frances Burney’s Cecilia and The Wanderer,” The Burney Journal 14 (2017): 24–40.
 
The Irish Guardian in The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660–1820, ed. April London. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.)
 
Isidora of Gallicia: A Novel in The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660–1820, ed. April London. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.)
 
 
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
“Lady Delacour’s Electoral Accessories.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Providence, RI, 2018.
 
“‘Sights ne’er recorded in the Books of Fame’: Female Investors and Fashion in South Sea Bubble Poetry.” The Aphra Behn Society Biannual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 2017.
 
“The Politics of Sophia Western’s Muff.” American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Minneapolis, MN, 2017.
 
“Miss Larolles, Lady Belgrade’s Shoe Buckles, and the Law.” The Burney Society (North America) Biennial Conference: Burney and Politics, Washington D.C, 2016.
 
“Eliza Haywood and the Allegory of the Girdle: Women, Desire, and Things in Memoirs of a Certain Island.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Los Angeles, CA, 2015.
 
“The Things of Masquerade in Frances Burney’s Cecilia.” Pride and Prejudices: Women's Writing of the Long Eighteenth Century. Chawton House Library, Chawton, UK, 2013.
 
“‘The Fair Voluble:’ The Role of Miss Larolles in Frances Burney’s Cecilia.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Cleveland, OH, 2013.
 
 
PUBLIC-FACING WRITING
“Your Legal Rights as a Woman: A Handbook for Virginians,” Arthur J. Morris Law Library, 2019.
 
 
 
“Women’s Legal Rights in UVA’s First Law Library: Baron and Feme,” Arthur J. Morris Law Library, 2019.