DrKelsey McFaul

Dr Kelsey McFaul is a Taighde Éireann/Research Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of English, Drama and Film and a Resident Scholar in the UCD Humanities Institute. Her research is at the intersection of world literature, especially African and African language literatures, and environmental and atmospheric criticism. She is also interested in literary translation and translation publishing infrastructures. Her current project "Late in the season: Atmosphere and weather in the global novel" is a comparative and multilingual study of literary weather in non-English novels. 

Dr McFaul was co-chair of the 2025 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (US) conference on Collective Atmospheres, and her academic writing has been published or is forthcoming in Public Humanities, Monsoon, Feminist Africa, and the Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies, as well as the collected volume Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought: Thinking through History Across the Waters (2023). As a public fellow at the Center for the Art of Translation and Two Lines Press, she co-edited No Edges: Swahili Stories (2023), the first collection of Swahili fiction in English translation. Her public writing on African literature and translation has appeared on the Center's website, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.