Erin I. Kelly is an American philosopher and author. She is a professor of philosophy at Tufts University.
Her book Chasing Me to My Grave, which she co-wrote with the subject Winfred Rembert, won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography.
Education and career
Kelly attended Stanford University (AB; 1984) and Columbia University (MA; 1987) and received her PhD from Harvard University (1995). She joined Tufts University in 1995, rising to full professor in 2018. She lists her academic interests as "justice, the nature of moral reasons, moral responsibility and desert, and theories of punishment".
Selected works
Authored books
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South. By Winfred Rembert, as told to Erin I. Kelly (Bloomsbury, 2021) The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility (Harvard University Press, 2018)
Edited books
John Rawls, Erin Kelly, ed. Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (Harvard University Press; 2001)
Articles
Erin I. Kelly (2009). Criminal justice without retribution. The Journal of Philosophy 106 (8): 440–462
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American philosophers American women philosophers Tufts University faculty Stanford University alumni Columbia University alumni Harvard University alumni