Dr. Sandra Bell
Sandra Bell is an Professor in the discipline of English at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John.
Sandra Bell is a Professor in the discipline of English at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. She joined the Faculty in 2000, and is currently the Chair of the Department of Humanities and Languages. Sandra received the Allan P. Stuart Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2006, and was a University Teaching Scholar (2009-12).
Sandra's teaching areas are sixteenth and seventeenth century literature, as well as Shakespeare and pedagogy, and Script into Performance. She has published on the writings of James VI of Scotland, I of England, and his mother, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. She is one of three editors of an anthology of sixteenth century prose and verse, published by Broadview Press in 2012.Sandra has also presented papers on Shakespeare, and gives workshops on Shakespeare.
Sandra is also active in theatre in the Saint John community; she is on the boards of the Saint John Theatre Company and the Shakespeare Society of Saint John. She has written, directed, and acted in plays. In 2008 she received an New Brunswick Arts Creation Grant for playwriting. Sandra also organizes the Shoestring Theatre group at UNB Saint John.
