Millicent bell biography channel
Millicent bell biography channel
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Millicent Bell, whose classes sparkled with excitement, was devoted to the life of the mind and imagination. Her empathy and sense of justice were keen. Photo by BU Photography
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In the preface to her final book, Shakespeare’s Tragic Skepticism (Yale, 2002), Millicent Bell stated her ambitious aim: “I have tried to mark out a pathway across a trampled field.…But in the case of Shakespeare, there is always something true and important that seems not to have been said before.”
In her scholarly life, Bell, a College of Arts & Sciences professor emerita of English, demonstrated this same fusion of intellectual boldness, passion, and generosity—traits she inspired her students to discover in themselves.
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Bell died on August 6, 2015. She was 95.
At age 15, Bell enrolled at New York University and went on to earn an MA and a PhD at Brown University. She joined the English department at BU in 1963 and taught English and American l