Suzette Bishop
- Courses8
- Reviews23
- School: Texas A&M International University
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- Department: English
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Location:
5201 University Blvd
Laredo, TX - 78041 - Dates at Texas A&M International University: April 2005 - November 2019
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Biography
Texas A&M International University - English
Adjunct Instructor at Texas A&M International University
Higher Education
Suzette
Bishop
Laredo, Texas Area
I conscientiously and eagerly follow standardized syllabi and course designs while also finding the challenge of designing whole courses, assignments, and activities extremely satisfying. Furthermore, I have experience incorporating online technology into my courses, such as using Texas A&M International University's online e-learning platform, ANGEL, Turnitin, MyCompLab, Norton Literature Online, and Powerpoint presentations. I am perfectly comfortable teaching in a variety of formats and classroom settings, from small face-to-face writing workshops, to large lecture hall classes, to computer-assisted class meetings. I have undergone training to design online courses.
No matter the discipline, format, or level I teach, I always emphasize the importance and benefits of reading critically, interpretively, and creatively and practicing the steps of the writing process. Over the course of a semester, I find it exciting to watch students taking pride in learning the crafts of writing or interpreting literature. I also find it deeply fulfilling guiding students toward becoming more confident writers and readers. Moreover, I enjoy the challenge of being a writing mentor, learning to find each student’s individual strengths and areas to work on along with each student’s learning style.
As someone with few family members who attended college and coming from an underprivileged background, I believe I bring to my interactions with students a unique understanding of the struggles and adjustments many students may face. And as a person with a disability, I am always happy to assist students and encourage them to seek assistance from university support resources, as needed. Often, students remark they were not aware of these resources until I mentioned them or they were reluctant to ask for help, underscoring, for me, the immeasurable impact faculty can have on student success.
Experience
Texas A&M International University
Adjunct Instructor
I have a wide range of experience adjunct teaching for twenty-five years, nearly fifteen of those years at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU). During my teaching career, I have greatly enjoyed teaching courses in the disciplines of creative writing, composition, and literature while working with diverse, first-generation, and nontraditional undergraduate student populations. Additionally, I have two semesters' experience teaching graduate poetry workshops and have had the added pleasure of occasionally teaching graduate students enrolled for graduate credit in my upper-level creative writing courses. I assisted with establishing and maintaining a bilingual creative writing minor at Texas A&M International University, as well.
Texas A&M International University
Grader, Rising Junior Exam
Graded writing competency exams.
Texas A&M International University
Adjunct Instructor
Course-Related Activities, Program Development and Advising, Committee Work:
Nominated student writing for the TACWT state-wide student contest, 2005-present
Faculty Sponsor, Creative Writing Club, 2014-present, 2007-2008
Developed and designed writing-intensive sections of Introduction to Creative Writing, Creative Nonfiction, and Fiction courses, 2013-2014
Wrote a justification to include Introduction to Creative Writing course in the arts core requirement, 2008, 2013
Team Leader, mentoring group for composition instructors, 2011, 2013, 2014
Collaborated with an art professor to have creative writing students and art students produce an
illustrated prose work or poetry broadside, 2012
Participated as a member of a committee to develop an assessment survey to measure student teamwork in composition courses, 2012
Participated as a member of the First Year Writing Program Team to review new textbooks for composition courses, 2011
Displayed student portfolios and poems during National Poetry Month, Killam Library, 2006-2010
Applied, at Chair’s request, to be an AWP member Creative Writing Minor Program, 2009
Haiku Workshop Co-Leader, "'Write-On' TAMIU Field Day," National Day on Writing, 2009
Co-Presenter, "Ghosts, Goblins, and Group Writing: From Invention to Presentation," First Year Writing Program/PROF Center Teaching Workshop
Wrote a brochure for the Creative Writing Minor, 2007
Member, Search Committee to hire a Writing Center Director, 2007
Advisor, Creative Writing Minor, 2006-2007
Assisted in developing Creative Writing Minor, 2002
Member of Faculty Committee to launch Reflections, student literary journal, 2001-2002
Poetry Workshop Leader, Conference of Writers on the Border, 2000Texas A&M International University
Judge for a community Middle English reading contest held as part of a campus medieval festival and Judge for a poetry contest for a Cervantes and Shakespeare Festival on campus.
Austin College
Associate Adjunct Instructor
As an Associate Adjunct Instructor at Austin College, I taught courses in the areas of creative writing, literature, and composition. Additionally, I served on the English Advisory Committee, sponsored a student writing group, and exhibited student creative writing portfolios.
Hecho En Encinal
Creative Writing Instructor
While a Creative Writing Instructor at Hecho En Encinal, I taught poetry writing to children in an after-school program serving a rural, Hispanic community.
Oxford University Press
Freelance Writer and Researcher, Oxford Dictionary of Military Terms
Researched and wrote entries.
Self
Freelance Editor and Proofreader
Completed book manuscript editing and proofreading projects for PennWell Publishing Company and for individual clients on a variety of subjects including science, history, and creative writing.
Education
State University of New York at Albany
Doctorate of Arts
Poetry
Secondary Areas: Modern Women Poets, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century African American Women Writers, Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Doctoral exams passed with Distinction.Oberlin College
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
English Language and Literature/Letters
English Major, Creative Writing Minor Winter Term Projects: Independent Study of poetry writing, a course on Gothic literature and film, voice lessonsUniversity of Virginia
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Poetry
Publications
Horse-Minded
WordTech Communications, CW Books Imprint
The wide expanse of the Western landscape predominates Horse-Minded by Suzette Marie Bishop, opening tough vistas for human and spiritual experience.
Horse-Minded
WordTech Communications, CW Books Imprint
The wide expanse of the Western landscape predominates Horse-Minded by Suzette Marie Bishop, opening tough vistas for human and spiritual experience.
"Spun and Frayed into a 'Shimmering Capture': A Review of Molly Bendall's Under the Quick"
Octopus Magazine
Horse-Minded
WordTech Communications, CW Books Imprint
The wide expanse of the Western landscape predominates Horse-Minded by Suzette Marie Bishop, opening tough vistas for human and spiritual experience.
"Spun and Frayed into a 'Shimmering Capture': A Review of Molly Bendall's Under the Quick"
Octopus Magazine
"Death Is Just the Limo Driver: Re-Envisioning 'Because I could not stop for Death' after Gazing at Emily Dickinson and Kate Scott Turner Gazing at Us"
New Texas: A Journal of Literatue and Culture
Given the biographical implications of Dickinson’s sexual orientation and the newly discovered daguerreotype of Dickinson and Turner, the essay argues Dickinson employs a poetics of indirection to enact the possibility of a matrimony between two women in “Because I could not stop for Death.” Employing a poetics of indirection, “Immortality” in the poem is the speaker’s true love interest, and the speaker’s quest for an eternal home is one she envisions for herself and the female “Immortality.”
Horse-Minded
WordTech Communications, CW Books Imprint
The wide expanse of the Western landscape predominates Horse-Minded by Suzette Marie Bishop, opening tough vistas for human and spiritual experience.
"Spun and Frayed into a 'Shimmering Capture': A Review of Molly Bendall's Under the Quick"
Octopus Magazine
"Death Is Just the Limo Driver: Re-Envisioning 'Because I could not stop for Death' after Gazing at Emily Dickinson and Kate Scott Turner Gazing at Us"
New Texas: A Journal of Literatue and Culture
Given the biographical implications of Dickinson’s sexual orientation and the newly discovered daguerreotype of Dickinson and Turner, the essay argues Dickinson employs a poetics of indirection to enact the possibility of a matrimony between two women in “Because I could not stop for Death.” Employing a poetics of indirection, “Immortality” in the poem is the speaker’s true love interest, and the speaker’s quest for an eternal home is one she envisions for herself and the female “Immortality.”
"Workers MIA on IMD"
Stockport Flats Press
Poetry Broadside
Horse-Minded
WordTech Communications, CW Books Imprint
The wide expanse of the Western landscape predominates Horse-Minded by Suzette Marie Bishop, opening tough vistas for human and spiritual experience.
"Spun and Frayed into a 'Shimmering Capture': A Review of Molly Bendall's Under the Quick"
Octopus Magazine
"Death Is Just the Limo Driver: Re-Envisioning 'Because I could not stop for Death' after Gazing at Emily Dickinson and Kate Scott Turner Gazing at Us"
New Texas: A Journal of Literatue and Culture
Given the biographical implications of Dickinson’s sexual orientation and the newly discovered daguerreotype of Dickinson and Turner, the essay argues Dickinson employs a poetics of indirection to enact the possibility of a matrimony between two women in “Because I could not stop for Death.” Employing a poetics of indirection, “Immortality” in the poem is the speaker’s true love interest, and the speaker’s quest for an eternal home is one she envisions for herself and the female “Immortality.”
"Workers MIA on IMD"
Stockport Flats Press
Poetry Broadside
She Took Off Her Wings and Shoes
Utah State University Press
"The book is wild, bold, furious, generous, unsubdued, hilariously and painfully juxtaposing whole strata of languages in chunks of cognitive dissonance that tell more about our culture and our world than volumes of sociology, She Took Off Her Wings and Shoes is deeply personal, extravagantly public art. It is experimental in ways that May Swenson would have applauded." —Alicia Ostriker
Horse-Minded
WordTech Communications, CW Books Imprint
The wide expanse of the Western landscape predominates Horse-Minded by Suzette Marie Bishop, opening tough vistas for human and spiritual experience.
"Spun and Frayed into a 'Shimmering Capture': A Review of Molly Bendall's Under the Quick"
Octopus Magazine
"Death Is Just the Limo Driver: Re-Envisioning 'Because I could not stop for Death' after Gazing at Emily Dickinson and Kate Scott Turner Gazing at Us"
New Texas: A Journal of Literatue and Culture
Given the biographical implications of Dickinson’s sexual orientation and the newly discovered daguerreotype of Dickinson and Turner, the essay argues Dickinson employs a poetics of indirection to enact the possibility of a matrimony between two women in “Because I could not stop for Death.” Employing a poetics of indirection, “Immortality” in the poem is the speaker’s true love interest, and the speaker’s quest for an eternal home is one she envisions for herself and the female “Immortality.”
"Workers MIA on IMD"
Stockport Flats Press
Poetry Broadside
She Took Off Her Wings and Shoes
Utah State University Press
"The book is wild, bold, furious, generous, unsubdued, hilariously and painfully juxtaposing whole strata of languages in chunks of cognitive dissonance that tell more about our culture and our world than volumes of sociology, She Took Off Her Wings and Shoes is deeply personal, extravagantly public art. It is experimental in ways that May Swenson would have applauded." —Alicia Ostriker
Cold Knife Surgery
Red Dragon Press
"In this comprehensible poem based on her experience surviving cancer, Suzette Bishop has created a powerful book of healing. She tells us her story through the mind's eye of a young woman who 'senses she is invisible to a system that has based its research primarily on male anatomy, that is profit-driven, and invasive.' Cold Knife Surgery reads as real and surreal introspective deliberations as she sorts out medical and financial obstacles, fear, and frustration. Remarkably, she responds to situations without hostility, anger, or bitterness. Her healing is rooted in learning, personal growth, and self-esteem. The harshness of her external world is transformed by her sensitivity and grace." Laura Qa
Horse-Minded
WordTech Communications, CW Books Imprint
The wide expanse of the Western landscape predominates Horse-Minded by Suzette Marie Bishop, opening tough vistas for human and spiritual experience.
"Spun and Frayed into a 'Shimmering Capture': A Review of Molly Bendall's Under the Quick"
Octopus Magazine
"Death Is Just the Limo Driver: Re-Envisioning 'Because I could not stop for Death' after Gazing at Emily Dickinson and Kate Scott Turner Gazing at Us"
New Texas: A Journal of Literatue and Culture
Given the biographical implications of Dickinson’s sexual orientation and the newly discovered daguerreotype of Dickinson and Turner, the essay argues Dickinson employs a poetics of indirection to enact the possibility of a matrimony between two women in “Because I could not stop for Death.” Employing a poetics of indirection, “Immortality” in the poem is the speaker’s true love interest, and the speaker’s quest for an eternal home is one she envisions for herself and the female “Immortality.”
"Workers MIA on IMD"
Stockport Flats Press
Poetry Broadside
She Took Off Her Wings and Shoes
Utah State University Press
"The book is wild, bold, furious, generous, unsubdued, hilariously and painfully juxtaposing whole strata of languages in chunks of cognitive dissonance that tell more about our culture and our world than volumes of sociology, She Took Off Her Wings and Shoes is deeply personal, extravagantly public art. It is experimental in ways that May Swenson would have applauded." —Alicia Ostriker
Cold Knife Surgery
Red Dragon Press
"In this comprehensible poem based on her experience surviving cancer, Suzette Bishop has created a powerful book of healing. She tells us her story through the mind's eye of a young woman who 'senses she is invisible to a system that has based its research primarily on male anatomy, that is profit-driven, and invasive.' Cold Knife Surgery reads as real and surreal introspective deliberations as she sorts out medical and financial obstacles, fear, and frustration. Remarkably, she responds to situations without hostility, anger, or bitterness. Her healing is rooted in learning, personal growth, and self-esteem. The harshness of her external world is transformed by her sensitivity and grace." Laura Qa
Anthology Publications of Individual Poems, 1993-Present
The Four Seasons Anthology/ Kind of a Hurrican Press
Storm Cycle 2015: The Best of Kind of a Hurricane Press, The Virago Book of Birth Poetry, Imagination & Place: An Anthology, American Ghost: Poets on Life after Industry, The Four Seasons Anthology, The Southern Poetry Anthology: Texas
Horse-Minded
WordTech Communications, CW Books Imprint
The wide expanse of the Western landscape predominates Horse-Minded by Suzette Marie Bishop, opening tough vistas for human and spiritual experience.
"Spun and Frayed into a 'Shimmering Capture': A Review of Molly Bendall's Under the Quick"
Octopus Magazine
"Death Is Just the Limo Driver: Re-Envisioning 'Because I could not stop for Death' after Gazing at Emily Dickinson and Kate Scott Turner Gazing at Us"
New Texas: A Journal of Literatue and Culture
Given the biographical implications of Dickinson’s sexual orientation and the newly discovered daguerreotype of Dickinson and Turner, the essay argues Dickinson employs a poetics of indirection to enact the possibility of a matrimony between two women in “Because I could not stop for Death.” Employing a poetics of indirection, “Immortality” in the poem is the speaker’s true love interest, and the speaker’s quest for an eternal home is one she envisions for herself and the female “Immortality.”
"Workers MIA on IMD"
Stockport Flats Press
Poetry Broadside
She Took Off Her Wings and Shoes
Utah State University Press
"The book is wild, bold, furious, generous, unsubdued, hilariously and painfully juxtaposing whole strata of languages in chunks of cognitive dissonance that tell more about our culture and our world than volumes of sociology, She Took Off Her Wings and Shoes is deeply personal, extravagantly public art. It is experimental in ways that May Swenson would have applauded." —Alicia Ostriker
Cold Knife Surgery
Red Dragon Press
"In this comprehensible poem based on her experience surviving cancer, Suzette Bishop has created a powerful book of healing. She tells us her story through the mind's eye of a young woman who 'senses she is invisible to a system that has based its research primarily on male anatomy, that is profit-driven, and invasive.' Cold Knife Surgery reads as real and surreal introspective deliberations as she sorts out medical and financial obstacles, fear, and frustration. Remarkably, she responds to situations without hostility, anger, or bitterness. Her healing is rooted in learning, personal growth, and self-esteem. The harshness of her external world is transformed by her sensitivity and grace." Laura Qa
Anthology Publications of Individual Poems, 1993-Present
The Four Seasons Anthology/ Kind of a Hurrican Press
Storm Cycle 2015: The Best of Kind of a Hurricane Press, The Virago Book of Birth Poetry, Imagination & Place: An Anthology, American Ghost: Poets on Life after Industry, The Four Seasons Anthology, The Southern Poetry Anthology: Texas
Hive-Mind
Stockport Flats Press: Confluence Series
As if hexed, bees disappear like the lost crew of a ship. Hive-Mind illuminates the real source of Colony Collapse Disorder: our destructive approach to nature. Reading Suzette Bishop's collection of poems, we move through humming hives of lyric poems, swarms of prose, and then toward a diminishing collage of fragmentary, disconnected thoughts, the result of fried neurons. This hybrid collection sounds an alarm about what else disappears with the bees: pollination, female power and enterprise, jars of honey, the bee-loud glade, the human colony. Suzette Bishop highlights caretakers of honeybees who are the most acutely aware of bees as humankeepers. We meet three Nineteenth-Century Texas beekeepers and Sylvia Plath—women who kept themselves in comfort, awe, and inspiration while tending to their hives. “The attraction–and immediacy–of these narratives lies in the way Ms. Bishop effortlessly tie[s] together landscape and memory, and past and present. Ephemeral passages stitched together like a quilt; persistent as bees in their millions of miles flown and in their endless milligrams of collected pollen. Here is the epiphany of natural cycles repeating, crests and troughs connected in an endless flow.” “Overall, the environmental concerns and personal frailties and epiphanies weave together to form a substantial statement, and, simultaneously, a diary.” Robert Kostuck, Concho River Review, Fall 2015 “Bishop . . . takes a look at bees and beekeepers. She highlights colony collapse disorder, the environmental disaster causing honeybee colonies to die. As she learned more about the disappearance of bees, she realized she wanted to raise awareness about the devastating implications of the problem . . . Are we the beekeepers or are the bees the humankeepers?” Marla Elsea, Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Fall 2015 Review: http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/april-exemplars-national-poetry-months-best-picks-by-grace-cavalieri
