Faculty

Bump, Jerome
Professor

Education: Ph.D. UC Berkeley 1972
Office Location: PAR 132
Office Hours: TTh 9:45-10:45a, 1:15-1:45p, and by appointment
Phone: (512) 471-8747
bump@mail.utexas.edu

Jerome and Sue Bump live near Lago Vista, a mile from Lake Travis, on a little ''ranch'' named ''Pied Beauty,'' the title of a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Jerome has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, and the recipient of the Jeanne Holloway Award for undergraduate teaching. He is the author of Gerard Manley Hopkins and fifty chapters and articles. See Webpage link above.

Research Interests: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Victorian literature, literature of nature, relationship of literature to architecture, 19th-century Oxford, family systems, virtual study abroad, hypermedia

Awards and Honors: Finalist, Substantial Writing Component Award for Excellence in Writing Instruction, 2002 - 2003
Departmental Nominee, Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award, 2002 - 2003