From 1995 to 1996 he taught at the Zentrales Sprachlabor of Ruprecht-Karls University[5] of Heidelberg, and collected survey data for his Master's Thesis, Jugendsprache: a critical study of German "Youth Language.

"[6] Before teaching at Virginia Tech, Bishop worked in the Office of Arts and Sciences Information Services (OASIS) as an academic-technology liaison at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he provided technical support for faculty and staff members and graduate students.

[5] He left UNC in 2004 for Virginia Tech, where he was an instructor in German, and taught information technology for VT's Faculty Development Institute.

[9] According to Michael Bishop, Jamie "spoke German like a native, understood computers inside out, played drums in a basement band, bicycled and hiked, followed the fortunes of the Atlanta Braves as obsessively as his mother, grandmothers, and I did, and made friends everywhere.

[12] The annual "Jamie Bishop Memorial Award for an Essay Not in English" was established by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts as a prize for an essay on the subject of science fiction or speculative fiction not written in English,[13][14] open to students and scholars presenting papers at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.