Kevin Bell

Kevin Bell is an Associate Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, affiliated with the Department of English. He serves as Honors Adviser and is located at 23 Burrowes Building. His research focuses on African American Literature, Critical Theory, and Film Studies, with a particular emphasis on trans-Atlantic modernisms and radical Black cultural production.

Education: Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University (2000).

Research interests include Black American literature, film, and music; critical theory; and experimental traditions in film. He authored Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity (2007) and is currently working on Drift Velocities: the Aesthetic Curve of Radical Black Film and Literature.