Robert Bell
William R. Kenan, Jr.,
Professor of EnglishE-mail: Robert.H.Bell@williams.edu
Phone: (413) 597-2424
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, Introduction to the Novel, John Barth and David Foster Wallace, Words and Music of the 60's and 70's: Bob Dylan, The Beatles, and Joni Mitchell
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," Critical Essays on Kingsley Amis; "Bob Dylan and the Language that He Used" "Shakespeare's Anatomy of Folly"; "A Teacher for All Seasons"; "Joyce's Hades Episode: Notes and Annotations," A Reader's Companion to David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, (ExLibris Press), co-authored with William C. Dowling (2005), "Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight," Southwest Review, Winter 2005
PROGRAM CONNECTIONS:
Theatre, Project for Effective Teaching
NEXT LEAVE: --- 2006
PRIMARY FIELDS OF INTEREST:
Humor, Comedy, Joyce, Shakespeare, Milton, Eighteenth Century, Modernism, Epic, David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest"
OTHER INTERESTS:
Teaching, Film, Theatre, Biography, Autobiography, History, Jazz, Bob Dylan
RECENT AWARDS: Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, 1998, Outstanding Baccalaureate Colleges Professor of the Year, awarded by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council of Advancement and Support of Education, 2004.
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