
Dr Eleanor Bell
Senior Lecturer
English
Prize And Awards
- Teaching Excellence Nomination
- Recipient
- 2019
- Strathclyde Teaching Excellence Award
- Recipient
- 2013
- Strathclyde University Teaching Excellence Award
- Recipient
- 2010
- Tuition Fellowship
- Recipient
- 1999
Publications
- Leaps and bounds : feminist interventions in Scottish literary print culture
- Bell Eleanor
- Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, Vol 5 Women's Print Media in the Postwar Period (2020) (2020)
- 'Five stones underneath' : Literary representations of the Lockerbie air disaster
- Bell Eleanor
- Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction Vol 61, pp. 341-353 (2020)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2020.1715913
- Rejecting the knitted claymore : the challenge to cultural nationalism in Scottish literary magazines of the 1960s and 1970s
- Bell Eleanor
- British Literature in Transition, 1960–1980 Flower Power (2018) (2018)
- Into the centre of things : poetic travel narratives in the work of Kathleen Jamie and Nan Shepherd
- Bell Eleanor
- Kathleen Jamie Essays and Poems on her Work (2014) (2014)
- Introduction
- Bell Eleanor
- The Scottish Sixties Reading, Rebellion, Revolution? (2013) (2013)
- The Scottish Sixties : Reading, Rebellion, Revolution?
- Bell Eleanor, Gunn Linda
- SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature, Vol 20 (2013)
- https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401209809
Teaching
I am course convenor of the MLitt in Interdisciplinary English Studies. The aim of this course is to give students a postgraduate education in aspects of English studies, particularly aspects which draw on the interdisciplinary possibilities of English studies. I am module leader of the MLitt module on Contemporary Scottish Cultural Studies, as well as the English & Creative Writing Research Placement. Please contact me directly if you would like to know more about this degree.
I am currently course organiser for the Honours module in Sixties Britain: Literature, Culture, Counterculture. At third year level I am module convenor of The Glasgow Novel, Detective Fiction, and the English & Creative Writing Work Placement.
At second year level I teach The Construction of Scotland: Text and Context.
Research Interests
My research broadly focusses on twentieth century Scottish literature. I am author of Questioning Scotland: Literature, Nationalism, Postmodernism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and co-editor of The Scottish Sixties:Reading, Rebellion, Revolution? (Rodopi, 2013), The International Writers' Conference Revisited: Edinburgh, 1962 (Cargo, 2012) and Scotland in Theory: Reflections on Literature and Culture (Rodopi, 2004).
I am currently working on Scottish literary magazine culture from 1960-1990. During 2018-2019 this work was supported by a Royal Society of Edinburgh small grant ('Little Magazine Culture in Scotland, 1960-1990').
Please contact me directly if you would like to discuss postgraduate studies in contemporary Scottish literature at Strathclyde.
Professional Activities
- Roundtable on ‘Voices from the Margins: Radicalism in Literature and the Arts in Post-war Scotland’ at the World Congress of Scottish Literatures, Prague, 23-25th June 2022
- Participant
- 30/6/2025
- ‘The 60th Anniversary of the Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference’, invitation to speak to The Friends of Edinburgh University Library (with Dr Angela Bartie).
- Speaker
- 19/4/2023
- University of the Highlands and Islands. Tier 1 External Examiner for Literature BA.
- Examiner
- 2023
- University of Stirling (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 2020
- Guest lecture on James Roberston
- Speaker
- 14/8/2019
- 'From Modernism to the Counterculture: reappraising the literary significance of the Edinburgh International Writers’ Conference, 1962' at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 23rd May.
- Speaker
- 23/5/2019
Projects
- SGSAH/AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, ‘Archiving Agnes Owens: Asserting the Marginal Voice’. Lead supervisor
- Bell, Eleanor (Principal Investigator)
- 16-Jan-2023 - 15-Jan-2026
- SGSAH/AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, ‘Archiving Agnes Owens: Asserting the Marginal Voice’. Lead supervisor
- Bell, Eleanor (Principal Investigator)
- 16-Jan-2023 - 15-Jan-2026
- ‘Alasdair Gray and the Disappearing City of Glasgow’
- Bell, Eleanor (Academic)
- Second supervisor to Lauren Forde, SGSAH Collaborative Doctoral Award
- 17-Jan-2022 - 16-Jan-2025
- Little Magazine Culture in Scotland, 1960-1990
- Bell, Eleanor (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-2019
- Quality Conversations in the ADR course
- Bell, Eleanor (Academic)
- Quality Conversations in the ADR course
- 15-Jan-2014
- ADR - Setting SMART Objectives course
- Bell, Eleanor (Academic)
- ADR - Setting SMART Objectives course
- 08-Jan-2014