Virginia Bell has published pedagogical manuals, book reviews, personal narratives, and academic essays on such writers as Anne Carson, Eduardo Galeano, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Carmen Boullosa.
"Consolation." Hypertext Magazine​, print edition 2017.
Instructor's Resource Manual for Beyond Borders: A Cultural Reader, Randall Bass and Joy Young, eds., Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
Beyond Borders Online. Co-authored with Randall Bass. Web Site for the anthology Beyond Borders: A Cultural Reader, Randall Bass and Joy Young, eds., Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
"Counter-Chronicling and Alternative Mapping in Memoria del fuego and Almanac of the Dead." MELUS. Fall 2000.
"Taming el Dzulúm: Appropriation of Mayan Culture in Rosario Castellanos's Balún Canán." Aleph. Fall 1993.