Dr Emily Bell

Pronouns: She/her
  • Vice-Chancellor Independent Research Fellow
Publications
ORCiD

Academic Career

  • 2024-present: Loughborough University
  • 2019-2023: PhD, University of Antwerp (Thesis: ‘Reading Near and Far: Social and Material Intertextuality in James Joyce’s Library’)
  • 2018-2019: MA, University of Galway (English)
  • 2014-2017: BA (Hons), University of Oxford (English Language & Literature)

Professional Responsibilities and Awards

  • Postgraduate Representative for British Association of Modernist Studies and Co-Editor of The Modernist Review (2021-2023)
  • Support Young Researchers Grant (OJO), University of Antwerp (October 2022)
  • Grant for a long stay abroad, Research Foundation – Flanders (August-September 2022)
  • Friends of the Zürich James Joyce Foundation Scholar (August – September 2022)
  • Trieste Joyce School Scholar (July 2022)
  • International James Joyce Foundation Scholar (June 2021)

Emily’s research is on modernism, the methodology of genetic criticism, book history, intertextuality and writing processes. She is particularly interested in literary, material and social histories, reconstructing them through the traces they leave in literary archives.

Her current research project, ‘The Sick Body Writing: Modernist Strategies of Textual Production’, uses the method of genetic criticism to consider how ill health impacted modernist writing processes.

Emily is currently working on the paper, ‘Reading Social Networks in James Joyce’s Library’, based on her recent doctoral research. 

Articles:

  • “When Joyce Met St. John Greer Ervine,” James Joyce Quarterly 1-2 (Fall 2023-Winter 2024): 130-141.
  • (With Andrea Davidson) “The Sick Body Writing: Towards an Affective Genetic Criticism”, Humanities, special issue on literature and medicine, forthcoming.
  • “Patriarchal Associations in the Drafting of “Proteus” and “Sirens”,” Genetic Joyce Studies, issue 21, Spring 2021.
  • “James Joyce’s Lifetime Library - Bibliographic Metadata,” Zenodo, 28 November 2023, doi:10.5281/zenodo.10213141.
  • “Reading Through the Canon: A 1922 Snapshot of James Joyce’s Library,” The Modernist Review, issue 43, October 2022.

Book Reviews:

  • “The Reader’s Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority of the Reader by Sophie Corser,” The Modernist Review, issue 46, May 2023.
  • “Historicizing Modernists: Approaches to ‘Archivalism’,” The Modernist Review, issue 38, February 2022.
  • “James Joyce, Science and Modernist Print Culture by Jeffrey S. Drouin,” James Joyce Broadsheet, June 2020.