My general research interests are in twentieth-century Scottish literature, theories of the nation, literary criticism and cultural studies. My current research is on Scottish literature in the context of the 1960s. I am currently writing a monograph and working on two edited volumes on this period.
I am also a member of the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative, The Association for Scottish Literary Studies, and a member of the ARHC Peer Review College.
I was Co-editor of the International Journal of Scottish Literature from 2006-2010.
I joined the Faculty in 2001 as Leverhulme Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Scottish and Irish Literature after completing my PhD at the University of Dundee. I have been a full-time lecturer in the School since 2004.
I am currently supervising four PhD students: Jacqui Ryder on Naomi Mitchison, Stewart Smith on the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay and Alec Finlay, Roseannah Murphy on deindustrialisation in Glasgow fiction (AHRC funded) and Gill Tasker on Alexander Trocchi (University Research Scholarship).
I offer courses on The Glasgow Novel, Detective Fiction and an option on the MLitt in Literature, Culture and Place on Contemporary Scottish Cultural Studies. I am also Co-organiser of English 1B.
- Eleanor Bell, Questioning Scotland: Literature, Nationalism, Postmodernism (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). ISBN: 1-4039-1331-5
- Eleanor Bell and Gavin Miller, eds. Scotland in Theory: Reflections on Culture and Literature (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004). ISBN: 90-420-1028-2
- 'Writing Nation?: Experimentation and the 1960s' in Glenda Norquay (ed), The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. Forthcoming).
- "‘The ugly burds without wings?" Reactions to Tradition since the 1960s’ in Fran Brearton, Edna Longley and Peter Mackay (eds), Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2011), ISBN: 9780521196024, pp.238-250.
- ‘Old Country, New Dreams: Scottish Poetry since the 1970s’ in Ian Brown, Susan Manning, Thomas Clancy and Murray Pittock, eds. The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006), pp.185-197. ISBN: 0748616152
- 'Postmodernism and the Question of Tradition' in Eleanor Bell and Gavin Miller, eds. Scotland in Theory: Reflections on Literature and Culture (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004), pp.83-95. ISBN: 90-420-1028-2
- 'Postmodernity, Ethics and Nationhood in the Contemporary Scottish Novel' in Boundaries and Identities: Nation, Politics and Culture in Scotland (Dundee: Abertay University Press, 2001). ISBN: 1-899796-08-8
- 'Ian Rankin and the Ethics of Crime Fiction', Clues: A Journal of Detection, 2008, Volume 26, Number 2, pp.53-64
- '"Logos into Chaos": Postmodern Apocalypse in Alasdair Gray's Lanark', Manuscript (Vol. 5), 2000, pp.14-25 (Manchester University Press). ISSN 1360-31 40
- 'Scotland and Ethics in the Work of AL Kennedy', Scotlands 5.1, 1999 (Edinburgh University Press), pp.105-113. ISSN: 1350-7508
- ‘Ethics and Estrangement in the Work of A.L. Kennedy’, Manuscript (Vol.3 No.2), 1998 (Manchester University Press), pp.57-65. ISSN: 1360-3140
