David F. Bell, Professor Emeritus

Nineteenth-century French literature and culture; critical theory; literature and science; literature and technology.

Office Location:	209 Language Center, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:

Education:

Ph.D.	Johns Hopkins University	1980
MA	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	1976
BA (cum laude)	Davidson College	1969

Specialties:: 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]