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Meet Dr. John H. Wilson

Education: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor BA, 1983 in History (Honors) MA, 1984 in English PhD, 1988 in English Years at Lock Haven University: 2

Professional interests and activities:

    Dr. Wilson's field is twentieth-century British literature, particularly fiction.  He wrote his dissertation about English novelist Evelyn Waugh, and he has studied Waugh's work ever since.  He has published two books about Waugh, Evelyn Waugh: A Literary Biography, 1903-1924 (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996) and Evelyn Waugh, A Literary Biography, 1924-1966 (FDUP, 2001).  He now edits Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies, an online periodical available at www.lhup.edu/~jwilson3, and is organizing the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference at Hertford College, Oxford in September 2003.  Dr Wilson has also edited Diary of an Army Baker: Quartermaster Corps, Southwest Pacific, 1942-1945  (Edwin Mellen, 2001), by Jack Wilson (my father), and has published two volumes of essays for Japanese students of English.

Honors 112: Composition and Literature II 

"I hope to introduce students to some of the best modern literature and to help them improve their writing.  I believe that the best method of improving one’s own writing is to read authors of considerable skill.  I have not yet decided on a reading list, but I am leaning toward the following works: Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, Candide by Voltaire, Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh, and Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima."

Personal interests and activities:

I play golf, I’m interested in movies, and I like to travel, especially to England and Japan.

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