Professor - English; Editor of Artful Dodge [On Leave 2018-19]

Office: Kauke 215
Phone: 330-263-2332
Email: dbourne@wooster.edu
Website

Degrees

• B.A., Indiana 1979
• M.F.A., Indiana 1987

Courses Taught

• ENGL 199: Editing a Literary Magazine
• ENGL 230: Literature of the Cold War
  Listen to an interview with Professor Bourne on the public radio program To The Best of Our Knowledge, talking about how this course was one of the first treatments of the Cold War as a literary as well as historical era
• First Year Seminar
• Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
• Post-World War II Poetry

Awards and Professional Memberships

As founding editor of the literary journal Artful Dodge, he was awarded the 1993 Ohioana Library Association's Award for Editorial Excellence.

Publications

• The recipient of four poetry fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, most recently in 2004-2005
• Published two books of poetry: The Household Gods and Where No One Spoke the Language
• Contributed poems to American Poetry Review, Field, Ploughshares, Salmagundi, and others
• Published a collection of his translations of the poetry and essays of Polish political writer Tomasz Jastrun: On the Crossroads of Asia and Europe
• Other translations appear in Partisan Review, Northwest Review, and Colorado Review

Notes

Bourne is active in contemporary American literature, Polish literature and culture, and writing with a strong sense of place, especially creative nonfiction involving the environment. He was a Fulbright research fellow to Poland in 1985-87.