David F. Bell Professor of French  Department of Romance Studies Department of Romance Studies  205 Language Building  Box 90257  Duke University  Durham, NC  27708-0257  Tel:   919-660-3100  Fax:  919-684-4029 Education/Research Interests Courses Taught Fall 2002 Courses Taught Fall 2003 French Culture Links

 

Education  B.A.  Davidson College, 1969 M.A.  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1973 Ph.D.  The Johns Hopkins University, 1980 Research Interests 19th- and 20th-Century French Literature and Culture Literary Theory Literature and Science or  Jump to Favorite Research Links

Courses Taught    Fall 2002 semester: French 100:  Cultural and Literary Perspectives French 391:  Stendhal Fall 2003 semester: French 100:  Cultural and Literary Perspectives French 391: French Cinema History/Theory     Bonus for interested parties: Cinema Vocabulary in French

 

Favorite French Culture Links Various newspapers:  Libération (of course); Le Monde (de rigueur); and many regional newspapers (Le Midi Libre, for example, or Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace). Francelink:   Your entry into French radio, television, newspapers, and cinema. You can listen to broadcasts, read the daily news, and find out what French movies are catching everyone's attention. France 2:   Catch the evening television news on France 2.  Updated every weekday.  Requires a sound card and RealAudio. Alapage:   Need to order a book, a video, or a CD from France?  Large virtual bookstore comparable to Amazon.  If you've gotten used to the FNAC, they're on line, too! And if you just can't give up Amazon, try it in French. Yahoo:  Go Yahoo in French.

 

Favorite Research Links   Centre d'Etudes du 19e siècle français, Toronto:  Information on and index of Emile Zola's correspondance, as well as access to other research and links on naturalism and the nineteenth century.    ARTFL Project, University of Chicago:  Database of French texts in electronic form that allows sophisticated searches for words and expressions.  Invaluable tool for researchers investigating themes in the French literary corpus of an author, a group of authors, or a period.  User must log on from a subscribing institution to use the database.   Dix-neuf: Sites et ressources sur le dix-neuvième siècle: Very useful list of sites and activities pertaining to 19th-century French studies.   Gallica:  Collection of French texts in the Bibliothèque Nationale in electronic form (historical dictionaries, encyclopedias, and literary texts) that may be consulted using Adobe Acrobat viewer.  Chronologie littéraire française, 1848-1914:  Helpful chronology of French literary, cultural, and historical events.  Growing regularly.  ABU: La Bibliothèque universelle: Many French literary texts, especially from the nineteenth century, can be found online here.   Voice of the Shuttle:  Extremely useful portal into web resources in literature, theory, cultural studies, and media.  A French site which publishes calls for papers and articles and publishes literary research dossiers and is therefore extremely useful for French literary research is Fabula. Concordance de Balzac:  Extremely useful concordance based on the Pléiade edition of the Comédie humaine. Not quite complete, but a wonderful research tool nonetheless.  And while we're on Balzac, check out the site of La Maison Balzac, where you can read the Furne edition online, as well as search for words and expressions in that edition.