Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bishop ya halarci Jami'ar Cornell daga 1910 zuwa 1913, ya sami digiri na farko da Morrison Poetry Prize a 1913 sannan kuma digiri na digiri a 1914. Daga nan sai ya sayar da littattafan rubutu ga Ginn &amp; Co, ya shiga Rundunar Sojojin Amurka (a lokacin da ya yi rashin farin ciki a karkashin Pershing a cikin "aikin azabtarwa
" a Mexico), ya kasance laftanan farko a Rundunar Sojojin Amurka a Yaƙin Duniya na, kuma ya yi aiki a kamfanin dillancin labaran New York, kafin ya koma Cornell don fara koyarwa a 1921 kuma ya sami Ph.D. a 1926; karatunsa yana kan wasan kwaikwayo na Jules Lemaître. Ya kasance yana da alaƙa da rayuwarsa ta girma tare da Cornell, a matsayin tsohon ɗalibi, Kappa Alpha Farfesa na Adabin Romantic, da kuma Tarihin Jami'ar. A shekara ta 1962, ya rubuta tarihin tarihin jami'ar, "A History of Cornell". A cikin 1962, an gabatar da Bishop tare da wani biki, "Nazarin Nazarin Faransanci na karni na sha bakwai". Wani bincike ya kammala da cewa littafin "ya nuna ci gaba da ƙwazo da kuma... ƙara ƙwarewa a nazarin adabin Faransanci na zamani".