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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