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Steve Wilson |
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Steve Wilson |
Steve Wilson -- whose degrees are from the University of Oklahoma, Texas Christian University and Wichita State University -- has been on the faculty at Texas State since 1987. The author of two books of poetry, Allegory Dance and The Singapore Express, Wilson has had recent poetry in New American Writing, Commonweal, The Literary Review, America, The North American Review, Poem, Christian Century, New Letters, Blue Unicorn, and The Wallace Stevens Journal. As well, his work has appeared in such anthologies as Visiting Frost: Poems Inspired by the Life & Work of Robert Frost, American Poetry: the Next Generation, American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement, O Taste and See: Food Poems, and Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America. He also edited the first anthology of contemporary American prose poetry, The Anatomy of Water, which appeared in 1992. This and other explorations of the conflicts within contemporary poetry often shape his courses on poetry; his Spring 2004 course on the Form and Theory of Poetry led him and his students to question how useful the term "poetry" is when studying such varied writers as Jackson MacLow, Ron Silliman or Jayne Cortez. Other interests include Beat literature, Emerson and American protest literature, about which he has conducted graduate and undergraduate courses and published articles on these and many other topics. His article on Jack Kerouac appears in The Beat Generation: Critical Essays; next spring, his study of performative identity and J.M. Synge will be published by The Midwest Quarterly. In addition, Wilson is actively involved in outreach programs that spread the teaching of creative writing to schools and the community. From 1989 to 2002, he served as director of the SWT Summer Writing Camp. He developed and taught a graduate course on "Teaching Creative Writing in the Schools during the Spring 1998 semester, for which his students held semester-long appointments teaching creative writing at area schools.
Another significant aspect of Steve's prfessional life is his foreign travel and teaching. In 1994, Wilson was awarded a Fulbright Senior Lectureship in Creative Writing: he spent the 94-95 academic year in Cluj, Romania teaching at Babes-Bolyai University. An article on that experience appears in the Spring 1998 issue of Thought & Action, the National Education Association's journal on higher education. 2002 saw him receive a second Fulbright Award, to teach American Literature at the University of Maribor, in Slovenia; in 2004 he returned to Slovenia as Texas State's first Fulbright Senior Specialist. He has also taught in Malaysia and England. With colleague John Blair, Wilson directs the University's annual summer study abroad program, Texas State in Ireland.
Among his teaching honors are 2007 and 2005 Swinney Faculty Senate Teaching Awards, the Texas State Alumni Association Teaching Award, an award as Texas State's Honors Professor of the Year, 2000 and 2006 Outstanding Professor in English from Texas State's Sigma Tau Delta chapter, and a 2004 Liberal Arts Award for Excellence in Teaching.
For the April 2007 episode of his radio and podcast series "Finding My Kerouac," producer Dave Berner interviewed Steve on race and Kerouac. To listen, click here.
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