abstract:Ian Frederick Andrew Bell (born 31 October 1947) is a British academic, Professor of American Literature at the University of Keele, since 1992‘BELL, Prof. Ian Frederick Andrew’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 7 Aug 2013