Sarah D'Evegnee

Teaching and mentoring college-aged students using a personalized, energetic, and creative teaching style is one of the ways I use my talents to build the Kingdom of God and I love it! My extensive experience teaching both Institute and courses in the English Department at BYU-Idaho has always been centered around the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

I can add a unique perspective to the Religion Department because of my combined experience teaching Institute, teaching as an adjunct English Professor, and being a mother of 7 children who are ages 13-25. My most valued role is being a mother, mentor, teacher, and friend to my children, and this role enhances my teaching and my relationships with my students. I use the Book of Mormon as a text in all of my writing courses to teach about writing, analysis, and good research.

My children and my students know that the Gospel of Jesus Christ brings me my greatest fulfillment and joy and I adore sharing it with them in loving, nurturing, creative ways.

• "How Reconversion Narratives Can Help Us Teach Our Students" Religious Educator Vol. 24 No. 1 · 2023
• "What Latter-day Saint Reconversion Narratives Teach Us about Our Faith." Shared Scholarship Lecture, BYU-Idaho. March 2022.
• "BYU-Idaho Professors Eric and Sarah d'Evegnée on Faith, Testimony and Reconversion." The Church News Podcast. Episode 57: November 16, 2021. https://www.thechurchnews.com/2021/11/16/23217805/church-news-podcast-byu-idaho-professors-reconversion-eric-and-sarah-devegnee
• "Why We're Telling the Stories of Latter-day Saint Reconversion." Deseret News. October 31, 2021. https://www.deseret.com/authors/sarah-hafen-d-evegnee
• BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 59: Iss. 1, Article 9. 2020. "Good Grief: Learning How to Use the Atonement of Jesus Christ" https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol59/iss1/9/
• BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 56: Iss. 3, Article 10. 2017. "Constructively Broken: Lessons from Motherhood" https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol56/iss3/10/
• "Handling the Mother Load: Finding Value in Motherhood and in Yourself."Education Week, BYU-Idaho. August 2015.

• Aaron Christensen, Seminary and Institute Coordinator, East Idaho Region, 208-201-1713, christensena@ChurchofJesusChrist.org
• Jason Williams, Dean of the College of Humanities, BYU-Idaho, 208-496-4210, williamsja@byui.edu
• Mark Bennion, former English Department Chair, BYU-Idaho, 208-496-4368, bennionm@byui.edu
• Kip Hartvigsen, former English Department Chair, BYU-Idaho, 208-206-2345, hartvigsenk@byui.edu