Kevin Bell
Associate Professor of English
23 Burrowes BuildingMailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
University Park , PA 16802
Email:
kmb47@psu.edu
Office Phone:
(814) 865-2831
Office Hours:
- FALL 2017:
Areas of Specialization
- American Literature After 1900
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New York University, Ph.D, Comparative Literature 2000
Trans-Atlantic literary modernisms; Black American literature, film and music; critical theory; experimental traditions in film.
Author of Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity (University of Minnesota Press, 2007). He is working now on an interpretive study entitled Drift Velocities: the Aesthetic Curve of Radical Black Film and Literature.
- African American Literature and Language
- Theory and Cultural Studies