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David F. Bell

Professor Emeritus of Romance Studies
Romance Studies
Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708
209 Language Center, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Stendhal's Tact · October 26, 2013 Lecture Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Richmond
Representing Representation · September 14, 2012 Lecture Articulations of Difference: A Symposium in Honor of Lawrence Schehr, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Balzac's Le Contrat de mariage: Code, Law, beyond the Law · October 29, 2011 Lecture Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Phila. PA
The Critical Difference of The Critical Difference - Commemorating Barbara Johnson · December 4, 2009 Invited Talk Duke University, Duke University
Balzac’s Archaeology of War · October 24, 2009 Lecture Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Brigham Young University

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Movement, Grace and Embodied Cognition · August 2015 - May 2016 Projects & Field Work flag United States of America
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Tact, Touch and Proprioception: The Culture and Neuroscience of Touch · August 2014 - August 2015 Projects & Field Work flag United States of America

Service to the Profession


Interim Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate Education : The Graduate School · October 21, 2011 - June 30, 2012 Committee Service
DGS, MA in the Humanities Program : Academic Advising · December 6, 2010 Committee Service