Configuring Kin: Adoption Archives, Literature, and the Possibility of Justice
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET | Renaissance Park 909
Kelly M. Rich is Assistant Professor of English at Wellesley College. She is the author of States of Repair: The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel (Oxford University Press, 2023), and is currently at work on her second book project, Children of Conflict: Cultural Formations of Transnational Adoption. With Nicole M. Rizzuto and Susan Zieger, she co-edited the MLA-prize winning collection The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure: Race, Affect, Environment (Northwestern University Press, 2022). Her research has appeared in Representations, ELH, Modern Fiction Studies, Contemporary Literature, and Law, Culture, and the Humanities, and has been supported by AAUW, Wellesley College, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
