David F. Bell, Professor Emeritus of Romance Studies
Please note: David has left the "Computational Media, Arts & Cultures" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.
Nineteenth-century French literature and culture; critical theory; literature and science; literature and technology.
Office Location: | 209 Language Center, Durham, NC 27708 |
Office Phone: | (919) 660-3100 |
Email Address: | |
- Office Hours:
- To be announced
- Education:
Ph.D. | Johns Hopkins University | 1980 |
MA | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1976 |
BA (cum laude) | Davidson College | 1969 |
- Specialties:
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French
European Studies
Sciences, Technologies
Theory of the Novel
Historicism
Modern and Contemporary
Space Studies, Urban Studies
- Research Interests:
Nineteenth-century French literature and culture; critical theory; literature and science; literature and technology.
- Areas of Interest:
- 19th-century French Literature
20th-century French Literature
Literature and Science
Literature and Technology
Critical Theory
Film Theory
- Current Ph.D. Students
- Églantine Colon
- Anne O'Neil Henry
- Alix Mazuet
- Virginie Pouzet
- Stephanie Lin
- Representative Publications
- Bell, DF, Real Time: Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola
(2004), Champaign: University of Illinois Press
- Bell, DF, Circumstances: Chance in the Literary Text
(1993), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
- Bell, DF, Here, There, Anywhere,
Spec. issue "After 9/11: European Perspectives," Contemporary French Civilization, vol. 29 no. 2
(2005),
pp. 89-109
- Bell, DF, Writing, movement /space, democracy: On Jacques Rancière's literary history,
Sub-Stance, vol. 33 no. 1
(January, 2004),
pp. 126-140, ISSN 0049-2426 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
- Bell, DF, Infinite Archives,
Spec. issue "Overload," SubStance, vol. 33 no. 3
(Fall, 2004),
pp. 148-161, ISSN 0049-2426 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
- Bell, DF, Vitesse et présent dans Lucien Leuwen,
L'Année stendhalienne, vol. 4
(2005),
pp. 149-161
- Bell, DF, Gustave Le Rouge et La Conspiration des milliardaires: M.A.D. avant la lettre,
Spec. issue "Science et littérature," Alliage, vol. 57-58
(2006),
pp. 169-176
- Bell, DF, Technologies of Speed, Technologies of Crime,
Yale French Studies no. 108
(2005),
pp. 8-8, JSTOR, ISSN 0044-0078 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]