Williams College English Department Faculty


Robert Bell

William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English


OFFICE: D-15 Stetson
HOURS: Monday & Friday 10:00-11:00; Wednesday 11:00-noon; Thursday 9:00-10:00; & by appointment
PHONE: (413) 597-2424
E-MAIL: rbell@williams.edu

EDUCATION: BA: Dartmouth, 1967; PhD: Harvard, 1972.
COURSES TAUGHT: Shakespeare, Eighteenth Century Literature, Restoration through the Romantics, Joyce's Ulysses, Modernism, Jane Austen and George Eliot
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: Jocoserious Joyce: The Fate of Folly in Ulysses, "Bertrand Russell and the Eliots," "Metamorphoses of Spritual Autobiography," "Blushing Like the Morn: Milton's Human Comedy in Paradise Lost," "James Boswell's Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," "David Hume's Fables of Identity," "Dryden's Aeneid as English Augustan Epic," "Sterne's Etristramology," "Rousseau: Prophet of Sincerity," "Shakespeare in Cyberspace"
PROGRAM CONNECTIONS: Theatre, Project for Effective Teaching
NEXT LEAVE: 2001
PRIMARY FIELDS OF INTEREST: Humor, Comedy, Joyce, Shakespeare, Milton, Eighteenth Century, Modernism, Epic.
OTHER INTERESTS: Teaching, Holocaust, Film, Theatre, Biography, Autobiography, History.



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