PhD Candidate, Literary Studies

Education

MA, University of Houston

Graduate Certificate, Digital Humanities, University of Houston

BA, University of California Santa Cruz

 

Grants

Smalley Fellowship, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. 2026

Hodgins Research Fellowship, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, 2025

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Fellowship, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. 2023, 2024

Melman Research Fellowship, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. 2024

English Dept. Fellowship, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. 2023

Graduate College Fellowship. University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025

Awards and Honors

List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students. University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024

Dean’s Honors. University of California, Santa Cruz. 2017

Courses Taught

INFO 303/WRIT 303 Writing Across Media (Upcoming: Fall 2025)

Business and Technical Writing 250: Principles of Business Communication

Rhetoric 105: Writing and Research 

English 116: Introduction to American Literature

Conference Papers

Bishop, David. “Reading the Gaps: Critical Approaches to Chronicling America and the Politics of the Digital Archive.” Paper presented at the Digital Pedagogy Institute DPI2025 Conference at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada on August 12-14, 2025.

Underwood, Ted., Hu, Yuerong., Senatorova, Elizabeta., Shang, Wenyi., Bishop, David. “Was the Avant-Garde Ahead of its Time?” Paper presented at the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations DH2023 Conference at the University of Graz, Austria on July 10-14, 2023.

Bishop, D. (December, 2019) “Reassessing the Eighteenth-Century Novel.” Paper presented at the “From the Margins to the Center” Graduate English Symposium at the University of Texas at San Antonio on February 22nd, 2020. 

Bishop, D. (April, 2019). “Ian Watt Indices: Testing Traditional Interpretations Using Digital Techniques.” Paper presented at the Text-mining Colloquium at the University of Houston’s Digital Research Commons on April 16th, 2019. 

Bishop, D. (2019, February). “A Traditional and Digital Approach to The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen.” Paper presented at the annual South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS) Conference in Dallas, TX on February 22nd, 2019. 

Mazella, D., Willan, C., Bishop, D., Stravoski, E., Barta, W., and James, M.. (2022). “Form and Genre in the Year 1771,” Paper presented at the annual South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS) Conference in Dallas, TX on February 22nd, 2019. 

Conference Posters

Bishop, David. “Serial Fiction: Mapping the Literary Landscape in the Nineteenth-Century United States.” Poster presented at the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations DH2025 Conference at Nova University, Lisbon, Portugal on July 14-18, 2025.

Bishop, David. “Predicting a Murderer: Predictive Modeling and Murder Mystery Fiction.” Poster presented at DH+BH: an Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Humanities and Book History (Digital Cultural Studies Cooperative (DCSC)) collaboratively hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of California Los Angeles, and Texas A&M University on September 22-24, 2022

Mazella, D., Barta, W., Bishop, D., Willan, C. (2019, November) “Form and Genre in the year 1771’s Inventory of Poetry and Poetic Genres.” Poster presented at the biennial Historical Poetics Now conference on November 9th, 2019. 

Recent Publications

Mazella, D., Willan, C., Bishop, D., Stravoski, E., Barta, W., and James, M.. (2022). "All the Modes of Story": Genre and the Gendering of Authorship in the Year 1771, pt I. ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830.