Henry Ansgar Kelly

Henry Ansgar Kelly serves as a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), maintaining an office in Kaplan Hall 192 with contact via kelly@humnet.ucla.edu and 310.825.4173.

His academic formation includes:

• Creighton University (1952-53)
• St. Louis University (1953-61): A.B. in Classics, English, Philosophy (1959); Ph.L. in Philosophy (1961); A.M. in English (1961)
• Harvard University (1961-64): Ph.D. (1965)
• Boston College, Weston College of Theology (1964-66)

Additional milestones feature his tenure as a Jesuit Seminarian (1953-66), Junior Fellow at Harvard Society of Fellows (1964-67), and Resident at American Academy in Rome (1966-67). His scholarship centers on Medieval and Renaissance Literature and History, Biblical Studies, Canon Law, Church History, and Theology, with extensive explorations of Chaucer, Dante, Inquisition procedures, kinship impediments, demonology, and Shakespeare. Notable projects include the Kelly Kiloton Index of Earthquake Moment Magnitudes and a self-authored Proleptic Obituary.