Bishop, Jonathan, 1979-

Professor of English. Jonathan Bishop was born in Paris in 1927, the son of the noted American poet, John Peale Bishop. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Harvard, receiving a Ph.D. in English in 1956. After teaching at Amherst College and UCLA, he came to Cornell in 1961. His books included "Emerson on the Soul (1964), "Something Else" (1972), "Who is Who" (1975), and "Covenant: A Reading" (1983). He co-founded Cornell's Freshman Humanities Seminar in 1966, serving as its director from 1978 to 1982. The program became the Knight Institute's First-Year Writing Seminar Program. Bishop was politically active at Cornell in the 1960s and 1970s. A long-time member of the Cornell Catholic Community, he had a strong interest in religion, teaching courses and writing several books on themes from the New Testament.