Dr. Bell joined the faculty in 1988. Her research interests include performance studies, feminist theory and pedagogy. She enjoys cross-stitching historical samplers, replacing biblical verses with feminist slogans. She is the proud mom of three very smart, funny, and talented children.

Curriculum Vitae
(May 2007)

Undergraduate course offerings

• Introduction to Communication as Performance
• Oral Tradition
• Women and Communication

Graduate course offerings

• Feminism and Performance
• Performance Theory
• Texts in Performance

Representative publications

• “Social Dramas and Cultural Performances: All the President’s Women.” Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 2, 1 (February 2006).


• “Sex Acts Beyond Boundaries and Binaries: A Feminist Challenge for Self Care in Performance Studies.” Text and Performance Quarterly 25, 3 (July 2005): 187-219.


• [Coauthored with Kim Golombisky.] “Voices and Silences in Our Classrooms: Mapping the Trails of Sex/Gender, Race, and Class.” Women’s Studies in Communication 27, 3 (Fall 2004): 294-329.

Recent Awards

• John I. Sisco Teaching Excellence Award, Southern States Communication Association, 2007.
• Southern States Communication Association Gender Scholar of the Year, 2006.
• Distinguished Service Award, Performance Studies Division, National Communication Association, 2005.
• Feminist Teacher-Mentor Award, Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender, 2000
• Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, USF, 2000

Links of Interest

• Subversive Cross Stitch

Education

Ph.D., Speech Communication, University of Texas, Austin, 1983.

M.A., Speech Communication, University of Texas at Austin, 1980.

B.S. with Honors, Speech Communication, University of Texas at Austin, 1973.