Dorian F. BellAssistant Professor of French, French & Italian |
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Research Interests |
19th- and 20th-century French literature and culture; empire studies; anti-Semitism; fin-de-siècle intellectual history; literature and science; literature and philosophy; film studies | |
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Academic Distinctions |
Dean's Scholar, Graduate Division of the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 2006 Naomi Schor Memorial Award for best graduate student paper, Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium, 2004 |
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| Appointments | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Humanities Fellows Program, Department of French and Italian, Stanford University, 2007-2008 | |
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Research Abstract |
My research has generally sought to bring literary poetics to bear on the history of ideologies. I have been particularly interested in the novel and its place within the nineteenth century's crescendoing debates about empire and race. My current book project, entitled "Frontiers of Hate: Anti-Semitism, Empire, and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France," examines sites of articulation between late nineteenth-century French imperialism and anti-Semitism. Noting the contribution of novels both canonical and non-canonical to the negative association of Jews with empire in the French imaginary, I document how the imperial frontier spawned a narrative frontier that helped metropolitan anti-Semitism adopt its modern racial and economic guise. I suggest that, in turn, French anti-Semitism shifted the discursive parameters of the imperialist project itself. | |
| Publications | "Maupassant and the Limits of the Self," Romanic Review (forthcoming) | |
| "Agent OSS 117: France, Colonial Memory, and the Politics of Parody," Contemporary French Civilization (forthcoming) | ||
| "The Jew as Model: Anti-Semitism, Aesthetics, and Epistemology in the Goncourt Brothers' Manette Salomon," Modern Language Notes 124: 4 (September 2009): 825-47. | ||
| "Cavemen Among Us: Genealogies of Atavism from Zola's La Bête humaine to Chabrol's Le Boucher," French Studies 62: 1 (January 2008): 39-52. | ||
| Grants | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies | |
| Jeanne Marandon Fellowship, Society of French and Francophone Professors of America | ||
| Florence Gould Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for Research in France, Council for European Studies, Columbia University | ||
| William Penn Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania | ||
| French Institute for Culture and Technology Travel Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania | ||
| Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship (Arabic), University of Pennsylvania | ||
| Fulbright US Student Program Grant, Tunisia | ||
| Other Experience |
Elected to the Modern Language Association's Executive Council 2006—2009 |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5564 | |
| Last updated | 11/06/2009 | |