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Kevin Bell
Associate Professor of English
Honors Adviser
23 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
23 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building

Spring 2025 Office Hours
Tuesdays 10:30--12:00 p.m. Wednesdays 11:30 a.m.--1:00 p.m.Areas of Specialization
African American Literature and Language
Critical Theory and Cultural Studies; American Literature after 1900; Black American Literature and Film; Film Studies
American Literature After 1900
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.