Ilona D Bell
Professor of English
Email: Ilona.D.Bell@williams.edu
Phone: (413) 597-2561
EDUCATION:
BA: Harvard, 1969; PhD: Boston College, 1977.
COURSES TAUGHT:
Shakespeare in Love, The Art of Courtship, Studies in the Lyric, Feminist Theory/Feminist Action, Shakespeare, Middle Ages through the Renaissance, Art of Poetry, Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare and Feminism, The Globe Then and Now
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship, Cambridge University Press, 1998. "'A Lover's Complaint'--A Conclusion to Shakespeare's Sonnets." Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays. Ed. James Schiffer. Garland Press, 1998, "The Role of the Lady in Donne's Songs and Sonets." Studies in English Literature 23 (1983): 113-29, "Elizabeth I--A woman, and (if that be not enough) an vnmarried Virgin." in Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women, 1995. "'What if it be a she? ' The Riddle of Donne's 'Curse'." John Donne's"desire of more": The Subject of Anne More Donne in His Poetry. 1996. "Under ye rage of a hott sonn & yr eyes: John Donne's Love Letters to Ann More." The Eagle and the Dove: Essays Reassessing John Donne. 1986.
PROGRAM CONNECTIONS:
Women's Studies.
PRIMARY FIELDS OF RESEARCH:
Renaissance Poetry, early modern women; Elizabeth I, John Donne, Shakespeare's Sonnets.
OTHER INTERESTS:
Feminist Theory, Early Modern Women's History, English Gardens, Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf