Gene H. Bell-VilladaProfessor of Romance Languages
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At Williams since 1975
Gene.H.Bell-Villada@williams.edu
23 Weston, x2045
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[Areas of Expertise and Interest]:
 Latin American Literature and Culture
Comparative Literature
Modernism
Music
Narrative (novels, short stories, satires)
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[Courses Taught]: (RLSP)
Intermediate Spanish (RLSP 103)
Latin American Civilization (RLSP 112)
Major Latin American Authors: 1880 to the Present (RLSP 203)
The Latin American Novel in Translation (RLSP 205/LIT 215)
Latino Writing: Literature by U.S. Hispanics (RLSP 306T)
Studies in Modern Latin American Literature (RLSP 403)
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[Education]:
B.A. University of Arizona, 1963
M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1967
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1974
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[Previous Posts]:
Visiting Professor, Wellesley College, 1984-5 and 1989-90
Director in Residence, Hamilton College Academic Year in Spain, 1986-87 and 1995-96
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[Recent Publications]:
Overseas American: Growing up Gringo in the Tropics, forthcoming in Spring 2005.
Editor, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Casebook, 2002.
Borges and His Fiction: A Guide to his Mind and Art (1981). Second edition, revised and expanded, 2000.
The Pianist Who Liked Ayn Rand: A Novella & 13 Stories, 1998.
Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life: How Politics and Markets Helped Shape the Ideology and Culture of Aestheticism, 1790-1990, 1996.
García Márquez: The Man and His Work, 1990.
The Carlos Chadwick Mystery --fiction, 1990.
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[Awards]:
Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1979
Grant, American Philosophical Society, 1982
Best Book Award for García Márquez: The Man and His Work, New England Council of Latin American Studies, 1991.
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, 1997, for "Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life."
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