Research Interests for David F. Bell

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

Representative Publications

1. Bell, DF, Real Time: Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola (2004), Champaign: University of Illinois Press
2. Bell, DF, Circumstances: Chance in the Literary Text (1993), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
3. Bell, DF, Here, There, Anywhere, Spec. issue "After 9/11: European Perspectives," Contemporary French Civilization, vol. 29 no. 2 (2005), pp. 89-109
4. 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]
5. Bell, DF, Infinite Archives, Spec. issue "Overload," SubStance, vol. 33 no. 3 (Fall, 2004), pp. 148-161, ISSN 0049-2426 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
6. Bell, DF, Vitesse et présent dans Lucien Leuwen, L'Année stendhalienne, vol. 4 (2005), pp. 149-161
7. 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
8. Bell, DF, Technologies of Speed, Technologies of Crime, Yale French Studies no. 108 (2005), pp. 8-8, JSTOR, ISSN 0044-0078 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]