Emily Bell began her literary studies at the University of Oxford before completing a Master’s in English Literature at the University of Galway in 2019. She moved to Antwerp, Belgium, to pursue her PhD on a project funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders. This PhD project reconstructed James Joyce’s library and Emily defended her thesis on Joyce’s strategies of intertextuality in October 2023.
Between 2021 and 2023, she was a postgraduate representative for the British Association of Modernist Studies and co-editor of The Modernist Review. She has published in Genetic Joyce Studies, The Modernist Review and the James Joyce Quarterly.
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.
Her general research interests are modernist writing processes (especially that of James Joyce), methodology of genetic criticism, book history, archival methods and health humanities.
Articles:
- “When James Joyce Met St. John Greer Ervine,” James Joyce Quarterly, forthcoming.
- (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.