Kevin Bell
Associate Professor of English
(814) 865-2831
23 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
Spring 2023 Office Hours
Spring 2023 T 12:30-2p.m; W 11:00-12:30 p.m. at Webster’s Café and Books, 133 Beaver Ave. Also available by Zoom appointment.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.
