Jameson Kismet Bell
Academic CV: JamesonKismetBell_26.10.2022_CV
Contact Information: j.kismetbell@boun.edu.tr
Areas of Expertise
Literature in relation to science, medicine, the body, and knowledge; performance and media studies, short literary forms, public urban literature
Education
Ph.D., German Studies, The Pennsylvania State University (2011)
Fulbright Fellow, ETH-Zürich (2009)
M.A., German Studies, The Pennsylvania State University (2002)
B.A., Bethel College (2000)
Courses Taught at Boğaziçi University
EL 101 Survey of English Literature I
EL 102 Survey of English Literature II
CL 104 Classical Literature
EL 201 Medieval Literature
EL 202 Renaissance Literature
EL 303 Restoration and Augustan Literature
EL 412 Senior Thesis
CL 498 Literary Short Forms and the Media Supplements
CL 48G Literature as Media: How Texts Matter
EL 591 History of Theory and Criticism (MA)
EL579 Graduate Seminar (MA)
EL 584 Graduate Tutorial (MA)
EL 68 A Proseminar (PhD)
Selected Publications
“Contours of the Soul: Transforming the Containers of the Soul into Ventricles of the Brain in 16th Century Europe.” Boxes: A Field Guide. Manchester: Mattering Press, 2020, 55-73. https://www.matteringpress.org/books/boxes
“Inscribing the Soul: Cerebral Ventricles as Symbolic and Material.” Boxes: A Field Guide. S. Bauer, M. Schlünder, and M. Rentetzi, eds. Manchester: Mattering Press, 2019, 55-73.
Performing the Sixteenth Century Brain: Beyond Word and Image Inscriptions. Münster: Lit Verlag, 2018.
“The Theatricality of Media: The Ethics of Adapting Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum to the Motion Picture.” Monatshefte, Vol. 107, No. 1, 2015. 64-82. Print. doi: 10.1353/mon.2015.0008
