Outstanding Baccalaureate College Professor of the Year teaches Jane Austen
Robert Bell, a professor at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has been named the Outstanding Baccalaureate College Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. According to the press release, Dr. Bell “teaches courses on Jane Austen and George Eliot, Shakespeare, and James Joyce, as well as general courses on poetry, the history of the novel, and English literature.” The AustenBlog Staff extends its congratulations to Dr. Bell. Who says the motto of liberal arts majors is “do you want fries with that?”












