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Wendy Bishop
Wendy Sue Bishop was born January 13, 1953 in Fukuoka, Japan. She was the daughter of Robert Loomis and Lillian (Hagen) Bishop. Wendy Sue Bishop died on November 21, 2003 from leukemia. She is survived by her husband, Marvin East Pollard, and her two children, Morgan Pollard Bishop and Tait Pollard Bishop.

Wendy Sue Bishop, former Kellogg Hunt Professor of English at Florida State University, authored or edited a number of books, essays, and articles on composition, creative writing pedagogy, and writing research, including Acts of Revision; The Subject Is Writing, Third Edition; The Subject Is Story; The Subject Is Research; and The Subject Is Reading, as well as Ethnographic Writing Research, Elements of Alternate Style, and In Praise of Pedagogy, all published by Boynton/Cook.

Education


 * BA in English, University of California, Davis, 1975
 * MA in English, University of California, Davis 1976
 * MA in English, University of California, Davis 1979
 * Postdoctorate, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1980

Teaching Career


 * Associate Professor, English, University of California, Davis, 1979-1980
 * Lecturer, English, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria, 1980-1981
 * Instructor, English, Northern Arizona University, 1981-1982
 * Director/Instructor, Special Services for Disadvantaged Students, Navajo Community College, 1982-1984
 * Chair/Instructor, Communication Arts, Humanities, and Fine Arts Division, Navajo Community College, 1984-1985
 * Visiting Assistant Professor, Creative Writing, University of Alaska, 1985-1987
 * Coordinator of the Writing Center, University of Alaska, 1987

Notable Awards
Wendy Bishop held national, professional positions:

Conference on College Composition and Communication, chair, 2001 

Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2001, chair's address, "Against the Odds in Composition and Rhetoric." This Address draws on "the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins  to celebrate a life in composition."

Co-Vice President and member of the Board of Directors, Associated Writing Programs

Among her other professional awards are:

International Writing Centers Association Conference, Savannah GA, 2002, keynote address

She received prestigious teaching awards:


 * University Teaching Award, 1993
 * University Developing Scholar Award, 1994
 * Teaching Incentive Program Award. 1996

Bishop was also recognized as a poet:


 * Walt Whitman Award, Academy of American Poets, 1982 and 1984
 * Joseph Henry Jackson Award, San Francisco Foundation, 1980
 * Finalist for the DiCastagnola Award, Poetry Society of America, 1982

Selected Publications
Wendy Bishop was a prolific scholar, essayist, and poet. Below is a selection of her publications:


 * Acts of Revision: A Guide for Writers
 * Ethnographic Writing Research: Writing It Down, Writing It Up, Reading It
 * Finding Our Way: A Writing Teacher's Sourcebook, with Deborah Coxwell Teague
 * In Praise of Pedagogy, with David Starkey
 * Keywords in Creative Writing, with David Starkey
 * The Subject is Reading: Essays by Teachers and Students
 * The Subject is Research, with Pavel Zemliansky
 * The Subject is Story, with Hans Ostrom
 * The Subject is Writing, with James Strickland