Robert Huntley Bell

Robert Huntley Bell (born 21 February 1946) is a nationally recognized American teacher and scholar known for his work on James Joyce, Shakespeare, eighteenth-century literature, comedy, and satire. Retired in 2018, Bell is professor emeritus of Williams College, and lives in Williamstown, MA with his wife Ilona Bell. They have two daughters and four grandchildren.

Early Life and Education Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1946, Bell was graduated from Belmont Hill School in 1963 and from Dartmouth College in 1967. and a Danforth Foundation Fellowship for graduate study. and the Carnegie Foundation Outstanding College Professor of the Year 2004. He was also named Exemplary Teacher, American Association of Higher Education in 1994. He retired from Williams in 2018 as Frederick Latimer Wells Professor of English.

Selected Publications

Books

Bell, Robert H. Jocoserious Joyce: the fate of folly in Ulysses. Cornell University Press, 1991. . Bell, Robert H. Critical essays on Kingsley Amis. G.K. Hall: Simon and Schuster Macmillan, 1998. . Bell, Robert (with William Dowling). A Reader’s Companion to Infinite Jest. Xlibris, 2005. . Bell, Robert H. Shakespeare's great stage of fools. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. . Bell, Robert H. The Rise of Autobiography in the Eighteenth-Century. Edwin Mellen Press, 2012. .

Articles

Bell, Robert H. "Preparatory to anything else: Introduction to Joyce's Hades." Journal of Modern Literature 24 (2001): 363-499. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jml.2001.0001. Bell, Robert H. "Metamorphoses of Spiritual Autobiography." English Literary History 44 (1977): 108–126. doi:10.2307/2872529. . Bell, Robert H. "Blushing like the morn: Milton's Human Comedy." Milton Quarterly 15 (1981): 47–55. . Bell, Robert H. "Bertrand Russell and the Eliots." The American Scholar 52 (1983): 309–325. . Bell, Robert H. "Confession and Concealment in The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell." Biography 8 (1985): 318-335. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bio.2010.0444. Bell, Robert H. "On Becoming a Teacher of Teachers." Harvard Educational Review 69 (1999): 447-456. doi:10.17763/haer.69.4.6x47362636342683. . Bell, Robert H. "Sterne's Anatomy of Folly." Literary Imagination 3 (2001): 21–41. https://doi.org/10.1093/litimag/3.1.21. Bell, Robert H. "Double Dylan." Popular Music and Society 24 (2000): 109–126. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007760008591770. Bell, Robert H. “Rereading Orson Welles’s Chimes at Midnight.” Southwest Review 89 (2005): 566-574. Bell, Robert H. “Inside the Wardrobe: Is 'Narnia' a Christian Allegory?” Commonweal 132 (2005): 12-14. Bell, Robert H. “Robert Frost, Symbolical Teacher.” In The Best Kind of College: An Insiders' Guide to America's Small Liberal Arts Colleges. State University of New York Press, 2015: 91-106. https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.18254125.12 . Bell, Robert H. “William James: The Memory of Glory and the Work of Mourning.” In The Civil War in Art and Memory. Yale University Press, Studies in the History of Art 81, Symposium Papers LVIII (2016): 227-243. Published by: National Gallery of Art, https://www.jstor.org/stable/45112961.