EDUCATION

A.B., in English, Princeton University 1973
Ph.D., American Studies, Yale University 1979

ACADEMIC PROFILE

Specializes in literary realism and naturalism, the history of American journalism and print culture, and U.S. cultural history. In recent years his work has focused on cultural representations of crime and police power.

COURSES

 EN133.14 - Narrative/Interpretation

 EN142.01 - American Literary History II

 EN380.01 - American Neon

 EN430.01- Literature and Journalism in America

 EN836.01- Media, Culture, Narrative

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)

• "Lost Boys and Recovered Classics: Literary and Social Memory in Lorenzo Carcaterra's Sleepers (1995)," Journal of American Studies 42 (2008): 107-31.
• "Undercover: White Ethnicity and Police Exposé in the 1970s," American Literature, June 2005: 349-77
• "'The Mulatto in the Iron Mask: Mark Twain and Alexandre Dumas," Reading Without Maps?Cultural Landmarks in a Post-Canonical Age (PIE/Peter Lang: 2005), 319-336.
• "The Secrets of the Master's Deed-Box: Class and American Fiction," Blackwell Companion to American Fiction, 1990-1920. (2005)
• Cop Knowledge: Police Power and Cultural Narrative in Twentieth Century America (2000)
• "Plotting the Border: John Reed, Pancho Villa, and Insurgent Mexico," in Donald Pease and Amy Kaplan, eds. The Cultures of United States Imperialism (1998)
• White Collar Fictions: Class and Social Representation in American Literature (1992)
• The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era (1985)
  

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION

A past Director of American Studies at B.C., Professor Wilson has served on the editorial boards of American Literature and American Quarterly, and was associate editor of The Columbia History of the American Novel in 1993. In 1982, he received the M.L.A's Norman Forester Prize for the best essay in American Literature. In 1999,he received the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award from the Boston College chapter. In 2006, he received a "Teaching with New Media" award from BC's Instructional Design and eteaching Services. In 2007, he received the Geoffrey A. Marshall Mentoring Award, from the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools.