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About Patricia Bizzell
- Patricia Bizzell, Ph.D.
- is Professor of English and former Chairperson of the English Department at College of the Holy Cross, United States, 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 directed the College Honors and English Honors programs.
- She teaches first-year composition, rhetoric and public speaking, nineteenth-century American literature and women's literature. A 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. Bizzell is the subject of a profile chapter in Women's Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition, eds.
- Michelle Ballif, Diane Davis, and Roxanne Mountford (Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2008).
- Her research interests include the question of how the increasing diversification of academic discourses affects the teaching of writing to college students.
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