Bruce M. Wilson
Professor of English
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
St. Mary’s City, Maryland 20686
P.O. Box 120
Dameron, Maryland 20628
(301) 872-0302 (home)
(240) 895-4254 (office)
Email: bmwilson@smcm.edu
ACADEMIC TRAINING
1987 – 89 N.E.H Institute: Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective,
Columbia University: Barbara Stoler Miller, Director
1984
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Washington D.C.:
Chinese language
1980
N.E.H. Seminar: Chinese Literature in an Interlingual Context, Stanford
University: James J.Y. Liu, Director
1977
Ph.D. in English, University of Virginia
1970
B.A. cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Bates College, with study abroad in Italy and
Japan:
1969 – 70 Sophia University; Tokyo, Japan
1968 – 69 Università degli Studi di Firenze; Florence, Italy
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
2002
2002
1999 – 02
2000
1993 – 96
1992 – 93
1983 – 96
Coordinator, East Asian Studies Program, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Nitze Scholars China Study Tour organizer and leader
Head, Division of Arts and Letters St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Director, Summer Institute: Comparative Fictions East and West; Hangzhou
College, Zhejiang University; Hangzhou, China
Head, Division of Arts and Letters, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Head, Division of Arts and Letters, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Director, Fudan – St. Mary’s Exchange Program
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1997 – 98
1997
1984 – 85
1982 – 83
Senior Fulbright Lectureship; Fudan University; Shanghai, China
Lecturer in literature on the Book of Poetry, Six Dynasties and Tang Dynasty
poetry for the N.E.H. Institute on Teaching the Chinese Classics. St. Mary’s
College of Maryland: Roger Ames and Henry Rosemont, Jr., Directors
Senior Fulbright Lectureship; Fudan University; Shanghai, China
Foreign Expert; Dept.of Foreign Languages and Literature; Fudan University;
Shanghai, China (spring 1982 – summer 1983)
1976 –
Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor; St. Mary’s College
of Maryland
PUBLICATIONS
2000
1998
1998
1997
1996
1995
1992
1988
1988
1985
1985
1982
1982
1979 –1985
“At Cock Crow Temple in Nanjing: An Exchange of Poems among Zhang Ziqing, Leimo, and Bruce Wilson.” New World Poetry (Chinese language). No.59,
August.
“The Navigable Waterways of Shaoxing.” Zhejiang Journal (Chinese language).
Rewritten in English and currently in circulation as “Shaoxing Waterways” in
Cultural Encounters: American Writers, Scholars, and Artists in China, ed.
David and Jan Evans.
Essay entries in the Enclopedia of World Authors, revised edition, on Li Po,
Wang Wei, Wu Cheng’en, and Ts’ao Hsueh-ch’in. Revised and updated essays
on Kalidasa and Lafcadio Hearn.
Translation with Bright Sheng of Qin Guan’s “The Bridge of Magpies.” Santa Fe
Chamber Music Festival Program. Summer.
Translation of Tao Qian’s “Drinking Wine #5.” Potomac Review.
Essay entries in the Asian American Encyclopedia (Marshall Cavendish:
January) on “Calligraphy,” “Japanese Ornamental Horticulture,” “American
Transcendentalism.”
Translation of Xie Ling-yun’s “To Those Who Saw Me Off at Fang Shan.”
Poetlore. Vol. 68, no.4. Winter 1991-92.
100 Tang Poems. Edited, translated, introduced and annotated with Zhang Tingchen. Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, Ltd.
Translation of Xie Ling-yun’s “Scaling the Height of Stone Gate Mountain,”
selected for inclusion in the Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of
American Poetry (1986 – 88 edition, ed. Alan F. Pater. Beverly Hills: Monitor
Book Company).
“Four Poems by Hsieh Ling-yun,” New Letters (Kansas City: University of
Missouri).
“Thoughts on Teaching at Fudan University.” China Exchange News. Vol. 13,
no. 3, September.
“The World of Bonsai.” Mulberry Tree Papers. St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
“’From Mirror after Mirror’: Yeats and Eastern Thought.” Comparative
Literature. Winter.
Book reviews in Philosophy East and West and Journal of the American Academy
of Religion:
DeWoskin, Kenneth J. A Song for One or Two: Music and the Concept of Art in
Early China. Philosophy East and West. Vol. 35, no. 3, 1985.
Yamada, Koun. Gateless Gate: Newly Translated with Commentary. Philosophy
East and West. Vol. 33, no. 1. 1983.
Edwards, Cliff. Everything Under Heaven: The Life and Words of Issa.
Philosophy East and West. Vol. 32, no. 2. 1982.
Cunningham, Lawrence J. St. Francis of Assisi and Mockler, Anthony. Francis
of Assisi: The Wandering Years. Journal of the American Academy
Religion. September, 1981.
Cleary, Thomas and J.C. The Blue Cliff Record: A Translation of the Zen
Classic. Philosophy East and West. Vol. 29, no. 2. 1979.
Stevens, John. One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryokan. Philosophy
East and West. Vol. 29, no. 1. 1979.
PRESENTATIONS
2002
Exhibition and demonstration of ikebana. Hamonie Japanische Blumenkunst. 30
Jahre Internationale Ikebana-Schule Georgie Davidson. Dusseldorf, Germany.
4 – 12 May.
1999 – 2001 Summer lectures at Chinese universities such as Xian Translators College,
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou College, and Fudan University on topics relating
to comparative literature and culture, listed below.
1997 -- 98
Lectures in China at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou University, Tianjin
University, Xiamen University, Beijing Institute of Foreign Studies, Fudan
University on topics such as “Western Modernism and East-West Encounters,”
“Postmodernism,” “Teaching China in the U.S. and the U.S. in China: What
Chinese and American Students Most Want to Know about Each other but Are
Afraid to Ask.”
1995
“Asia and Western Modernism.” Invited lecture given in conjunction with
celebrations marking the ninetieth anniversary of Fudan University. Shanghai.
27 May.
1993
Participant in Panel, “Getting Asia into the Mid-Atlantic College Curriculum.”
Mid-Atlantic Region/ Association for Asian Studies. 22nd Annual Meeting.
Ramapo College. Mahwah, New Jersey. 30 October.
1993
Chair of panel on “Translating East Asian Literature: Why Not Footnotes?” 16th
Annual Conference of the American Literary Translators Association. Georgia
State University; Atlanta, Georgia. 6 November.
1992
Bilingual Reading of translations of Tao Qian and Xie Ling-yun. 15th Annual
Conference of the American Literary Translators Association. University of
Pittsburgh. 30 October.
1991
Bilingual Reading of translations of Tao Qian and Xie Ling-yun. 14th Annual
Conference of American Literary Translators Association. University of Florida;
Gainsville, Florida. 8 November.
1990
Reading of translations of Tao Qian and Xie Ling-yun. Second Annual Festival of
Poetry Translation. Washington Chapter, American Literary Translators
Association. The George Washington University. 27 October.
1989
Reading of translations of Hsieh Ling-yun. First Annual Festival of Poetry
Translation. Washington Chapter, American Literary Translators Association.
The George Washington University. 28 October.
1987
Introduction to screening of Kurosawa’s Ran. Perspectives on Japan: A
Symposium presented by St. Mary’s College of Maryland with support from the
1986
1986
1985
1982
Maryland Humanities Council, the Japan Foundation, and the Cremona
Foundation. St. Mary’s College of Maryland. 7 November.
Member of the panel “Life in China” chaired by Michael Oksenberg. Committee
for Scholarly Communication with the People’s Republic of China. Berkeley
Springs, West Virginia. 7 June.
Member of the panel “The Impact of the Fulbright Program in China upon U.S.
Institutions. Fulbright Alumni Association. 9th Annual Meeting. Northern Illinois
University. 17 October.
“Shakespeare, King Lear, and the Renaissance: The Problem with Power.”
Fudan University Shakespeare Symposium. Shanghai. 23 April.
“Comparative Literature and Cross-cultural Analysis.” One of a series of lectures
delivered in celebration of Fudan University’s Founders Day. 6 May.
CONSULTING, etc.
As a reader for SUNY Press (1996 and 2001), Fudan University interviewer for
Times-Warner internships (summer 1999 and summer 2000), interviewee for
Beverly T. Watkins, “U.S. Teachers Find Freer Atmosphere in China Leads to
Closer Ties with Scholars and Students.” Chronicle of Higher Education. 15
January 1986.
SERVICE TO SMCM
Besides serving as Head of the Division of Arts and Letters and Director of the
Fudan St. Mary’s Exchange Program, I have been a member of the Admissions
Committee (1976), the Academic Policy Committee (1978 – 80), the Honors
Committee (1979 – 81), the Master Planning Council (1979 – 81), the Judicial
Board (1988 – 90), the College Evaluation Committee (1986 – 89, 1991 – 92),
and the Assessment Committee (1991 – 92). I was one of two Literature
Coordinators for the 1987 – 89 NEH curriculum development grant for “the
integration of the history, literature, and philosophy components of a new general
education curriculum” and have also served on two Provost Search Committees
(1980 and 1996).
REFERENCES
Chen Yin-zhang
Director
Foreign Affairs Office
Fudan University
86 – 21 – 65647308 (h)
86 – 21 – 65642266 (o)
yzchen@fudan.edu.cn
I first met Chen Yinzhang when he was a 1983 – 84 exchange student at St. Mary’s. Through the
years we have worked together to administer the Fudan-St. Mary’s Exchange Program.
Sun Jian
Professor of English
Fudan University
86 – 21 – 65679315 (h)
jiansuns@public7.sta.net.cn
Professor Sun and I met when I first arrived in Shanghai in February, 1982. Besides teaching at
Fudan, he has studied and taught at Leeds University in the U.K. and at the University of
California at Fullerton. For years we have been teacher and student of one another, and we have
shared one another’s work in progress. He has direct experience of my activities in China as a
student, teacher, scholar, and administrator.
Srimati Kamala
Director, Gandhi Memorial Center
Washington, D.C.
202 – 229 – 5914 (o)
301 – 373 – 2484 (h)
skskyview@erols.com
Kamala is an American woman who, in addition to directing the Gandhi Center, was ordained a
Swami by Swami Premananda in 1978 and became the head of the Golden Lotus Temple in
Washington, D.C. In Bombay in 1995 she was presented the Jamnalal Bajaj International Award
for Promoting Gandhian Values outside India by the Dalai Lama. For thirteen years we have
shared interests in international understanding, East-West encounters, and horsemanship.
Ann Waring
40475 Breton View Drive
Leonardtown, Maryland 20650
301 – 475 – 8206
lamaya@tqci.net
A returning student who was awarded a B.A. in History from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in
1987, Ann Waring has served on the Alumni Council and the Arts Alliance Steering Committee.
She and her former husband funded a scholarship at SMCM. Ann and I are fellow students of
ikebana and exhibited our work together at an international exhibition this past spring in
Dusseldorf, Germany.
Gail Wood
Administrative Assistant to the Head of the Division of Arts and Letters
St. Mary's College of Maryland
240 – 895 – 4225
gawood@smcm.edu
As Head of the Division of Arts and Letters, I have worked closely with Gail Wood through the
years. Better than anyone, she knows how I work.