Betty Louise Bell
Betty Louise Bell is an American author and educator.
Background
Bell was born on November 23, 1949, in Davis, Oklahoma.[1] She is a scholar and fiction writer of Cherokee ancestry. She earned her PhD in 1985 from Ohio State University.[2]
Career
Bell is a former director of the Native American Studies Program and former assistant professor of American culture, English, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.[citation needed] Her areas of scholarly interest include Native American literature, Women's Studies, 19th-century American literature, and creative writing. Her first novel Faces in the Moon was published in 1994 and received favorable reviews.[citation needed] In addition, Bell has published critical articles on Native American Literature that emphasize the political and personal aspects of Native American identity.[3]
Other works
- Faces in the Moon
- A Red Girl's Reasoning: Native American Women Writers and the Twentieth Century
- Reading Red: Feminism in Native America (Editor)
- Norton Anthology of Native America Literatures (Coeditor)
References
- ^ Weaver, Jace (1997). That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 155.
Betty Louise Bell Cherokee born November 23, 1949.
- ^ "Betty Louise Bell on Native American Authors". Archived from the original on 2012-11-28. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
- ^ Bataille, Gretchen M. and Laurie Lisa, Ed. Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland, 1993
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