Blackboard Exercises
Patricia Bizzell
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Patricia Bizzell, who earned her Ph.D from Rutgers University in 1975, is Professor of English and Chairperson of the English Department at College of the Holy Cross, where 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 and served as Faculty Speaker. She currently teaches first-year composition, rhetoric and public speaking, nineteenth-century American literature and women’s literature.
A prolific scholar and author, Bizzell’s research interests include women’s rhetoric, particularly in nineteenth-century America, Jewish rhetoric, and the question of how the increasing diversification of academic discourses affects the teaching of writing to college students.
She has served as President of the Board of Directors for the Alliance of Rhetoric Studies (2006), President of the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) (2004-2006), and Program Chair for the RSA 2004 biennial national conference, as well as a member of the RSA Book Award Committee (2007), and the Chair of the Mina Shaughnessy Prize Committee, 2008-2010 (2009). She has won the NCTE Outstanding Book Award (1992), the National Council of Writing Program Administrators Best Book Award (2000), and the Conference on College Composition and Communication Exemplar Award (2008) among others. Additionally, Bizzell serves on the editorial board of Voices of Democracy: The U. S. Oratory Project, a website project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, presenting authenticated texts, interpretive essays and teaching apparatus for important speeches in American history, and she has co-directed a workshop for the 2009 RSA Institute: “Women, Religion and Social Action, 1820-1940.”
Author
Marlene De La Cruz-Guzman
Date of Upload
11/3/09