Ronald Wallace

Co-Director of the Program in Creative Writing; Halls-Bascom Professor of English; Felix Pollak Professor of Poetry
608-263-3705
rwallace@wisc.edu
http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~WALLACE/

Degrees and Institutions

PhD, University of Michigan, 1971
BA, College of Wooster, 1967

Research Interests

Creative Writing (poetry and fiction); humor in American Literature.

Selected Publications

For a Limited Time Only: Poems (forthcoming from The University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008); Now You See It: Poems (Parallel Press 2005); Long For This World: New & Selected Poems (Pittsburgh, 2003); Quick Bright Things: Stories (Midlist, 2000); The Uses of Adversity: Poems (Pittsburgh, 1998); Time's Fancy: Poems (Pittsburgh, 1994); The Makings of Happiness (Pittsburgh,1991); People and Dog in the Sun (Pittsburgh, 1987); God Be With the Clown: Humor in American Poetry (Missouri, 1984); Tunes for Bears to Dance to: Poems (Pittsburgh 1983); Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks: Poems (Missouri, 1981); The Last Laugh: Form and Affirmation in the Contemporary American Comic Novel (Missouri, 1979); Henry James and the Comic Form (Michigan, 1975).

Personal Statement

Although I am interested in all modes of contemporary writing, and try to incorporate the full range of styles and modes in my teaching and research, I am particularly interested in contemporary poetry in traditional forms, the short-short story, and humor in recent poetry and fiction.