MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
European Studies Council

Fiona Bell

PhD Student
European Studies Council
Academic Year: 2024-25, 2023-24, 2022-23, 2021-22
Research Interests:

19th-century Russian literature and drama; gender and sexuality studies; histories of racialization in the Russian empire; physical theater in pedagogy

Fiona Bell

Fiona Bell is a Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures. Her dissertation frames the nineteenth-century Russian literary canon as the continual rearticulation of “Russian” as a racial category. Beyond the university, she is a critic, translator of Russophone literature, and clown performer.

Department: Slavic Languages & Literatures