Wendy Bishop
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Wendy Bishop | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 13, 1953 |
| Died | November 21, 2003 (aged 50) |
| Occupation | Professor of English |
| Awards | Joseph Henry Jackson Award for poetry, San Francisco Foundation, 1980. |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BA, University of California Davis
MA, University of California Davis MA, University of California Davis PhD, Indiana University of Pennsylvania |
| Thesis | A microethnography w ith case studies of teacher development through a graduate training course in writing (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Donald A. McAndrew |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Florida State University |
Wendy Bishop (1953–2003) was an academic, scholar, and poet, known for her contributions to the fields of rhetoric and composition and creative writing studies. Former Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English at Florida State University, Bishop authored and edited a number of books on composition and creative writing, including Acts of Revision; The Subject Is Writing, The Subject Is Reading, as well as Keywords in Creative Writing and Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem: A Guide to Writing Poetry.[1][2] Her work significantly influenced both creative writing and composition communities on a national level.[3]
Education
Bishop attended the University of California, Davis earning a BA in Studio Art and BA in English (both with honors) in 1975. She returned to UC Davis for two Master's degrees, one in English with a focus on Creative Writing, which she earned in 1976, and the other an M.A. in the Teaching of English, earned in 1979. She returned to school later to earn a Ph.D. in English Rhetoric from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1988.[3][4][5]
Teaching and professional experience
From 1984-1985, Bishop served as chair of Communications, Humanities, and Fine Arts Division at Navajo Community College in Tsaile, Arizona. Following this, she was a visiting assistant professor of English at University of Alaska Fairbanks from 1985-1989. Toward the end of her career, Bishop was associate professor of English and director of first-year composition at Florida State University, where she worked until her death in November 2003. In 2000, she was named a Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English.[5][6]
Professional contributions
Wendy Bishop was a prominent figure in the then emergent field of creative writing studies, known for her significant contributions to creative writing pedagogy and scholarship. She authored or co-authored a number of influential works, including, with Hans Ostrum, Colors of a Different Horse: Rethinking Creative Writing Theory and Pedagogy in 1994 and Released into Language: Options for Teaching Creative Writing in 1998. These texts provided foundational insights into creative writing theory and teaching practices when there was little scholarship in this area.[7] In 2001, she chaired the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication.[8]
