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Michael G. Kelly, PhD, University of Limerick, is Senior Lecturer in French and head of subject at the University of Limerick (Ireland), where he is also Director of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies. He is currently General Editor of the Irish Journal of French Studies, and managing editor of the Ralahine Utopian Studies book series (Peter Lang). He is the author of a study on the relations of utopia and modern French poetry, Strands of Utopia. Spaces of Poetic Work in Twentieth-Century France (Legenda, 2008 / Routledge, 2020), and has published widely in both English and French on a range of topics in modern and contemporary French and comparative literature.
COST provides networking opportunities for researchers and innovators in order to strengthen Europe’s capacity to address scientific, technological and societal challenges. There are three strategic priorities: promoting and spreading excellence, fostering interdisciplinary research for breakthrough science and empowering and retaining young researchers and innovators.
Writing Urban Places proposes an innovative investigation and implementation of a process for developing human understanding of communities, their society, and their situatedness, by narrative methods. It particularly focuses on the potential of narrative methods for urban development in European medium-sized cities.
