Professor, Philosophy
- Ph.D., Fordham University, Philosophy
- M. Phil., Fordham University, Philosophy
- MA, Fordham University, Philosophy
- BA, Connecticut College, Philosophy and Psychology (Double Major)
Michael R. Kelly, PhD, came to USD in Fall semester of 2013, having previously taught at Boston College. His main area of research is 20th Century Continental philosophy, especially phenomenology from its classical to its contemporary period.
Scholarly Work
Kelly's research publications and presentations have covered topics such as the relation between time-consciousness, intentionality, and self-awareness, as well as phenomenological analyses of various emotions such as envy, jealousy, grief, etc. In addition to articles in anthologies, Kelly has published in journals such as American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, The New Yearbook of Phenomenology, and Philosophy Today. He is author Phenomenology and the Problem of Time (Palgrave 2016) and A Phenomenological Analysis of Envy (Routledge 2024). He also is editor of -- Bergson and Phenomenology(Palgrave, 2010), and coeditor of three collections: With Jeffery A. Hanson, Michel Henry: The Affects of Thought(Bloomsbury, 2012), with Brian Harding, Perpetual Beginnings: Rereading Early Phenomenology (Bloomsbury 2016), and with Hanson and Harding, Michel Henry's Practical Phenomenology (Bloomsbury 2022).
Areas of Interest
In addition to his scholarly works, Kelly is interested in the history of philosophy and the history of ideas, or the "Great Books." He enjoys teaching introductory level philosophy courses (such as Human Nature and Ethics) and specialized classes in both the history of continental thought and certain themes (e.g., time-consciousness and subjective life, emotion studies and moral phenomenology, and existentialism).