- Patricia Bizzell
Patricia Bizzell, Ph.D. is Professor of English and Chairperson of the English Department at
College of the Holy Cross , where she has taught since 1978. She founded and directed the Writer's Workshop, a peer tutoring facility, and a writing-across-the-curriculum program. She has also directed the College Honors and English Honors programs. She currently teaches first-year composition,rhetoric and public speaking, nineteenth-century American literature and women's literature.A prolific scholar and author, Bizzell has authored or co-authored half a dozen books, written dozens of articles and book chapters, written more than a dozen book reviews and review essays, and presented a large number of papers at academic conferences. Her extensive [http://www.holycross.edu/departments/english/pbizzell/cv.html curriculum vita] is available online.
Bizzell is the subject of a profile chapter in the forthcoming book "Women's Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition", eds. Michelle Ballif, Diane Davis, and Roxanne Mountford (Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum). Her current research interests include the question of how the increasing diversification of academic discourses affects the teaching of writing to college students.
Professional experience
Teaching positions
*Chair, Department of English,
College of the Holy Cross , 2001-2005
*Professor of English, Holy Cross, 1988-present: composition, rhetoric, American Literature
*Director, English Honors Program, 1999-2000
*Director, College Honors Program, 1994-1998
*Director, Writing Programs, 1981-1994 (Writer's Workshop and Writing-across-the-Curriculum Program)
*Associate Professor, Holy Cross, 1981-1988
*Assistant Professor, Holy Cross, 1978-81
*Assistant Professor,Rutgers University , 1975-78, and Director, Remedial Writing Program, 1975-77, and Teacher Training Program, 1977-78Professional affiliations and activities
* President,
Rhetoric Society of America , 2004-2006
* Program Chair, RSA 2004 biennial national conference
* President, Board of Directors,Alliance of Rhetoric Societies , 2006 (ARS)Academic background
* Ph.D. in English Literature, Rutgers University, 1975.
* B.A. summa cum laude, Wellesley College, 1970.
* Currently enrolled in the M.J.L.S. (Masters, Jewish Liberal Studies) program atHebrew College Prizes and external grants received
* Winner,
National Council of Teachers of English Outstanding Book Award, 1992, for "The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present" (co-authored with Bruce Herzberg).* Winner, National Council of Writing Program Administrators Best Book Award, 2000, for "Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum," eds. Linda Shamoon, Sandra Jamieson, Rebecca Howard, and Robert Schwegler, which included Bizzell's essay "Writing as a Means of Social Change".
Books published
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title = Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness
publisher = University of Pittsburgh Press
language= English
date = 1992
location = Pittsburgh
pages = 295
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id = ISBN 0-8229-5485-0* cite book
last = Bizzell
first = Patricia
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coauthors = Herzberg, Bruce
title = Negotiating Difference: Readings in Multicultural American Rhetoric
publisher = Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
language= English
date = 1995
location = Boston
pages = 963
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id = ISBN 0-312-06846-8 (Alternate title: "Negotiating Difference: Cultural Case Studies for Composition")* cite book
last = Bizzell
first = Patricia
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coauthors = Herzberg, Bruce
title = Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present, The
publisher = Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
edition = 2nd ed.; 1st ed. 1990
language= English
date = 2001
location = Boston
pages = 1673
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id = ISBN 0-312-14839-9* cite book
editor = Bizzell, Patricia; Schroeder, Christopher; Fox, Helen, ed.
title = ALT DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy
publisher = Heinemann-Boynton/Cook
language= English
date = 2002
location = Portsmouth, New Hampshire
pages = 224
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id = ISBN 0-86709-516-4* cite book
last = Bizzell
first = Patricia
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coauthors = Herzberg, Bruce; Reynolds, Nedra
title = The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing
publisher = Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
edition = 6th ed.
language= English
date = 2003
location = Boston
pages = 275
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id = ISBN 0-312-40501-4* cite book
editor = Bizzell, Patricia, ed.
title = Rhetorical Agendas: Political, Ethical, Spiritual[ Proceedings of the 2004 Rhetoric Society of America Conference]
publisher = Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
language= English
date = 2005
location = Mahwah, New Jersey
pages = 400
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id = ISBN 0-8058-5311-1* cite book
last = Bizzell
first = Patricia
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coauthors = Herzberg, Bruce; Hacker, Diana
title = Negotiating Difference & Pocket Style Manual 4e
publisher = Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
edition = Package ed.
language= English
date = 2005
location = Boston
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id = ISBN 0-312-45814-2* cite book
last = Bizzell
first = Patricia
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coauthors = Herzberg, Bruce; Barnet, Sylvan; Badau, Hugo
title = Rhetorical Tradition 2e & From Critical Thinking to Argument
publisher = Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
edition = Package ed.
language= English
date = 2006
location = Boston
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id = ISBN 0-312-46336-7* cite book
last= Bizzell
first= Patricia
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coauthors= Lunsford, Andrea A.; Herzberg, Bruce
title= St. Martin's Handbook 5e with 2003 MLA Update & Exercises CD-ROM & Negotiating Difference
format= Hardcover
date= 2006
publisher= Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
location= Boston
language= English
id= ISBN 0-312-46021-XExternal links
* [http://college.holycross.edu/faculty/pbizzell/ Prof. Patricia Bizzell's home page at Holy Cross]
* [http://www.rhetoricsociety.org/ Rhetoric Society of America]
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