| Elouise M. Bell Elouise M. Bell taught English at Brigham Young University for more than thirty-five years. She served as composition coordinator and as associate dean of general and honors education, and she received the Karl G. Maeser Award for Distinguished Teaching. On various sabbaticals, she taught at the University of Arizona, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Berzenyi College in Hungary. Beyond the walls of academe, she was active in church and civic affairs, serving on the Young Women General Board (1973–75) and on the Utah Arts Council. She took particular pleasure in touring the West with her one-woman play based on the life of Mormon pioneer midwife Patty Bartlett Sessions, Aunt Patty Remembers. She received the Utah Woman of Achievement Award from the Governor’s Commission on Women and Families and an Honorary Life Member award from the Association for Mormon Letters. She wrote columns for three Utah newspapers and published two books, Only When I Laugh (1990) and Madame Ridiculous and Lady Sublime (2001). Now retired, she lives in South Carolina and continues to teach an occasional class as part of Coastal Carolina University’s Lifelong Learning Program. Her publications include essays, reviews, stories, and poems in such periodicals as English Journal, Women Studies Quarterly, BYU Studies, Network, Dialogue, Sunstone, and the Ensign. In her professional capacity she speaks throughout the state on subjects such as poetry, journal-keeping, and feminist issues. [adapted from Discoveries: Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women, 104] View Works by this Person |
| Also Known As | Elouise Bell |
| Career | Elouise M. Bell is Professor Emeritus of English and former Associate Dean of General and Honors Education at Brigham Young University, where she taught from 1963 through 1994. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and journalism at the University of Arizona, graduating magna cum laude, and earned her M.A. at BYU. |
| Awards | In 1983, the Utah Women's Political Caucus honored her with a Susa Young Gates Award for "contributing to human rights and the cause of women." In 1986, she received BYU's Alcuin Award for excellence in teaching, and in 1990, she was awarded a General Education Professorship for contributions to the university's general education curriculum. A collection of her essays, Only When I Laugh, received the 1990 AML award for Personal Essay. |
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