Elizabeth Bell
Professor (and Chair of Women's & Gender Studies)

Performance studies, Feminist theory, Feminist Pedagogy

Office: FAO 011
Phone: 813/974-0979
Email:

Starting in August 2011, Dr. Bell is serving as department chair of Women's & Gender Studies.

Dr. Bell joined the USF 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. She is Nana to two equally smart, funny, and talented grandchildren.

Curriculum Vitae
(January 2013)

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

• Elizabeth Bell and Daniel Blaeuer. Performing Gender and Interpersonal Communication Research. In The Gender and Communication Handbook, edited by Julia Wood and Bonnie Dow. Sage, 2006. 9-23.


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


• Elizabeth Bell. 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.


• Elizabeth Bell and 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.


• Elizabeth Bell. Do You Believe in Fairies? Peter Pan, Walt Disney and Me. Women's Studies in Communication 19, 2 (Summer 1996): 103-126.

Books

     

Honors and 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

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.

Current Courses

Graduate Students

Amanda Firestone , David Jenkins