Robert Huntley Bell (born 21 February 1946) is an American academic.
Bell attended Dartmouth College in a cohort that included Robert Reich, Frederick Schauer, William Mills Todd, and Daniel S. Papp, and graduated in 1967.
He pursued graduate study at Harvard University, where he met his wife Ilona Bell, and completed his doctorate in 1972.
In 1998, Bell and Paul G. Ashdown won the Robert Foster Cherry Award.
[5] He retired from Williams in 2018 as Frederick Latimer Wells Professor of English.