Joseph Bizup

Associate Professor; Assistant Dean and Director, CAS Writing Program

BA, University of Virginia
MA, University of Maryland
PhD, Indiana University


617-358-1500
730 Commonwealth Avenue

Teaching and Research Interests
  • Writing studies
  • Victorian studies
Selected Publications
  • Manufacturing Culture: Vindications of Early Victorian Industry (Virginia 2003)
  • “BEAM: A Rhetorical Vocabulary for Teaching Research-Based Writing,” Rhetoric Review 27.1 (2008)
  • “Architecture, Railroads, and Ruskin’s Rhetoric of Bodily Form,” Prose Studies 21.1 (1998)
  • “Walter Pater and the Ruskinian Gentleman,” English Literature in Transition: 1880–1920 38.1 (1995)
  • “Hopkins’ Influence on Percy’s Love in the Ruins,” Renascence 46.4 (1994)
  • With Eugene R. Kintgen, “The Cognitive Paradigm in Literary Studies,” College English 55.8 (1993)
  • “‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’ and Hopkins’ Theology of ‘News,’” Victorian Poetry 30.2 (1992)
  • “The Uses of Toulmin in Composition Studies.” College Composition and Communication 61.1 (2009) W1-W20
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