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| David F. Bell, Professor, French Studies,
- Contact Info:
| Office Location: | The Graduate School | | Office Phone: | (919) 681-1560 | | Email Address: |   | - Office Hours:
- Contact Carlus Walters: 681-1560
- Education:
| PhD | The 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
- Curriculum Vitae
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Anne O'Neil Henry
- Eglantine Colon
- Alix Mazuet
- Virginie Pouzet
- Stephanie Lin
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Real Time: Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola
(2004), Champaign: University of Illinois Press
- Circumstances: Chance in the Literary Text
(1993), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
- Here, There, Anywhere,
Spec. issue "After 9/11: European Perspectives," Contemporary French Civilization, vol. 29 no. 2
(Summer/Fall, 2005),
pp. 89-109
- Writing, Movement/Space, Democracy: On Jacques Rancière’s Literary History,
Spec. issue "Jacques Rancière," SubStance, vol. 33 no. 1
(2004),
pp. 126-40
- Infinite Archives,
Spec. issue "Overload," SubStance, vol. 33 no. 3
(Fall, 2004),
pp. 148-61
- Vitesse et présent dans Lucien Leuwen,
L'Année stendhalienne, vol. 4
(2005),
pp. 149-61
- 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. 169-76
- Technologies of Speed, Technologies of Crime,
Spec. issue "Investigating Crime," Yale French Studies no. 108
(2005),
pp. 8-19
David Bell received his PhD from Johns Hopkins in 1980, where he specialized in critical theory and nineteenth-century narrative. His first book, Models of Power: Politics and Economics in Zola's Rougon-Macquart, deals with narrative structures and political representation in Zola's series. His second book, Circumstances: Chance in the Literary Text, analyzes the function of chance in the realist narratives of Balzac and Stendhal. He has also worked on science and technology in nineteenth-century France, concentrating specifically on technologies of communication and their impact on the way people perceive space and time. His most recent book, entitled Real Time: Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola, explores the importance of speed and communication in Balzac, Stendhal, Dumas, and Zola and was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2004. His newest research deals with the notion of tact as a discursive strategy. He also works on the concept of debt in nineteenth-century French literature. He is co-editor of SubStance. |
