Dr. Andrew Bishop
Andrew Bishop is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English who specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture. His scholarship draws upon sociology, critical theory, and the environmental humanities to explore issues related to labor, leisure, and nature.
Currently he is working on a book manuscript that analyzes the crystallization of leisure in its modern form—commercially exploitable periods of free time—and the efforts of industrial-era, middle-class American authors to conceptualize and regulate the proper uses of free time in an industrial capitalist society. The book seeks to recapture the radical potential of one such use: the non-instrumental work of culture or cultivation.
Andrew came to UTEP from The Ohio State University, where he received his PhD in English. Prior to earning his PhD, Andrew taught literature and writing courses at Hudson County Community College in Jersey City, NJ, where he also served as Coordinator of Composition II.
Recent Publications:
"Darl's Bucket, Cash's Casket, and a Rogue River-Log: The Nature of Wood in As I Lay Dying." Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 69, no. 2, 2023, pp. 232-254.
"Making Sympathy 'Vicious' on The Island of Doctor Moreau." Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 43, no. 2, 2021. DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2021.1898229
"Health or Wealth? Environmentalism and Consumerism in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman." The Midwest Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 4, 2019, pp. 402-418.
"Wasted Bulls and Fungus-Ridden Fish: Waste, Travel, and Entitlemenet in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises." The Hemingway Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2019, pp. 27–41.
Contact Information
Email: atbishop2@utep.edu
Hudspeth Hall 217
Personal Information
PhD, Ohio State University
Visiting Assistant Professor