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Elouise M. Bell

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Elouise M. Bell was 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 served as composition coordinator and also 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. 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.

Bell received her bachelor’s degree in English and journalism at the University of Arizona, graduating magna cum laude, and earned her master’s degree at BYU.

She served on the Utah Arts Council and toured 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 is considered a Mormon humorist and 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. She wrote columns for three Utah newspapers and published two books, Only When I Laugh (1990) and Madame Ridiculous and Lady Sublime (2001). Her collection of essays, Only When I Laugh, received the 1990 Association of Mormon Letters award for Personal Essay. She was a popular speaker.

She retired to South Carolina and continued to teach an occasional class as part of Coastal Carolina University’s Lifelong Learning Program.

Elouise Bell
LDS
LDS (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
1935-09-10
Bachelor’s degree in English and journalism at the University of Arizona, master's degree from Brigham Young University
Professor Emeritus of English and former Associate Dean of General and Honors Education at Brigham Young University
Female
Author, Editor
English

63 Works by Elouise M. Bell

Title Role Year Genre
Diana Author Poetry
[Review of] The Rummage Sale by Donald R. Marshall Author Review
[Review of] Three Books of Poetry by Utah Poets Author Review
The Better for My Foes Author Personal Essay
Matrix Author Poetry
The Modern Muse Confused Author Poetry
Will I Ever Forget this Day? Editor 1980 Diary / Journal
Taking Them Seriously Author Review
The Prodigal's Mother Author Poetry
Voices from the Dust Author Review
Only When I Laugh Author 1990 Personal Essay
Psalm for a Saturday Night Author Poetry
When Nice Ain't Nice Author Unassigned
Yet All Experience is an Arch Author Unassigned
"This Do in Remembrance of Me" Author Poetry
The People of Mormon Author Poetry
Madame Ridiculous and Lady Sublime Author 2001 Personal Essay
[Review of] Tennis Shoes among the Nephites by Chris Heimerdinger Author Review
[Review of] Benediction: A Book of Stories, by Neal Chandler Author Review
Patriarch Author Poetry
Her House in Order Author Short Story
Zzzzzucchini Author Personal Essay
The Mug-wump Author Personal Essay
High on Huckleberry Hill Author Personal Essay
The Meeting Author Personal Essay
Matriotism Author Personal Essay
Testing, Testing... Author Personal Essay
Passage into Pantyhose Author Personal Essay
Reel Goddesses Author Personal Essay
In Memoriam: Algie E. Ballif Author Personal Essay
Unpacking Interruptus Author Personal Essay
When Nice Ain't So Nice Author Personal Essay
Lay Therapists Author Personal Essay
Luxery on a Shoestring Author Personal Essay
What Makes Boticelli Blush? Author Personal Essay
Avoiding the Close Shaves Author Personal Essay
Pocket Politics Author Personal Essay
Living Through the "Prime" Author Personal Essay
Sickbed Sidekicks Author Personal Essay
Sleepers Anonymous Author Personal Essay
Time Travel Author Personal Essay
Women Warblers Author Personal Essay
Peerless Pets Author Personal Essay
Liberating the Language Author Personal Essay
Greeting Cards Author Personal Essay
Camp Getaway Author Personal Essay
Family Status Author Personal Essay
Prowling the Classifieds Author Personal Essay
Call Me Indian Summer Author Personal Essay
Power Napping Author Personal Essay
Power Ploys Author Personal Essay
Staying Green Author Personal Essay
Three for the Holidays Author Personal Essay
Chrismyths Author Personal Essay
Counting the Milestones Author Personal Essay
It's Mine! Author Personal Essay
A Fable for Our Time Author Personal Essay
Patriarch Author 1973 Poetry
"Walk and Not Be Weary" Author Short Story
The Time Trap Author Short Story
The Mormon Female Experience Author Review
Musical Feminism Author Review
Company for Gertie's Pigeons Author Poetry
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