Dr. Kelly is a tenured professor and past graduate director of the English program at the College of Charleston.
In addition to his interests in modern British fiction, he conducts research in antebellum South Carolina history and published “Henry Laurens and the Southern Man of Conscience” in the South Carolina Historical Magazine.
Dr. Kelly has been an active member of the faculty senate and has served as a Western Civilization professor for the Honors Program.
[citation needed] Dr. Kelly edited the five volume Seagull Reader series for W.W. Norton.
Each volume offers introductory material and anthology reading appropriate for composition and literature classes.