Donald WESLING - Ph.D. (Harvard) EMERITUS Primary Office: Contact Department Primary Phone: Contact Department Email: dwesling@ucsd.edu Director: Clarion Workshop English Literature: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry; Poetics and Metrics; Prose and Poetry of the Natural World; Modern Scottish Literature; Mikhaïl Bakhtin and Dialogism Donald Wesling earned his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard University, and in between these took another B.A. degree at Cambridge University in England. He taught for three years at the University of Essex in England, but has spent most of his career at UC San Diego--where he was also Chair of the Department of Literature from 1985 to 1988. (He has held fellowships in London, Durham, and Leningrad, and during 1997-1998 was Otto Salgo Professor with an endowed Chair at Budapest.) Primarily he teaches courses in English and Scottish literature since 1750, focusing on poetry. He also teaches poetry and fiction in the Writing Major, and courses in Theory like History of Criticism. His current teaching project is creation of a graduate seminar on eco-writing and eco-criticism, and his writing plans include the forthcoming book Bakhtin and the Social Moorings of Poetry, and a book-in-progress on literary emotion. Selected Publications: Wordsworth and the Adequacy of Landscape. London: Routledge, 1970. The Chances of Rhyme: Device and Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. John Muir: To Yosemite and Beyond, Writings from the Yosemite Years, 1863-1975 (co-edited with Robert Engberg). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1980. Internal Resistances: The Poetry of Edward Dorn (editor, and with a chapter by Donald Wesling). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. The New Poetries: Poetic Form Since Wordsworth and Coleridge. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.: Bucknell University Press, 1985. Literary Voice: The Calling of Jonah (with Tadeusz Slawek). Albany: SUNY Press, 1995. The Scissors of Meter: Grammetrics and Reading. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. Bakhtin and the Nation. Special Issue of The Bucknell Review (edited with the San Diego Bakhtin Circle). Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 2000. "The Dialectical Criticism of Poetry: An Instance from Keats," Mosaic, 5.2 (Manitoba: Winter 1972). "The Speaking Subject in Russian Poetry and Poetics Since 1917," New Literary History, 23.1 (Winter 1992). "Mikhaïl Bakhtin and the Social Poetics of Dialect," Papers on Language and Literature, 29.3 (Summer 1993). "The Representational Moment in the Discourse of the Nation: Jean Baudrillard's America," Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, 4.1-2 (Debrecen, 1998).