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Portrait of Steve Wilson

Steve Wilson

  • Professor at English, College of Liberal Arts

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Member, Academic Freedom Committee. August 2017 - Present.
  • Director, Texas State in Ireland. 1998 - Present.
  • Advisory Member, Liberal Arts Study Abroad Council. 2005 - Present.
  • Mentor, Faculty Mentor. 1993 - Present.
  • Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. 1993 - Present.
  • Member, MFA Committee. 1990 - Present.
  • Member, Graduate Faculty. 1990 - Present.

2025

  • Faculty Senator, TXST Faculty Senate. May 1, 2024 - September 1, 2025.
  • Panelist, Faculty Study-Abroad Workshop. February 28, 2025.

2024

  • Member, Advanced Studies Committee. 2000 - October 2024.
  • Member, City of San Marcos Arts Commission. March 1, 2022 - April 18, 2024.
  • Participant, Bobcat Days. February 17, 2024.

2023

  • Participant, Bobcat Days. February 2023.

2022

  • Member-At-Large, Texas Faculty Association Board of Directors. July 2020 - March 2022.
  • Participant, Bobcat Days. February 19, 2022.

2021

  • Member, Department of English Curriculum Review. October 2019 - February 2021.

2020

  • Chair, Outstanding Student in English Selection Committee. August 2018 - July 2020.
  • Associate Chair, Department of English. June 1, 2018 - June 2020.
  • Member, Awards Day Committee. August 2018 - May 2020.
  • Member, Professor Review Committee. January 2020 - March 2020.
  • Participant, Bobcat Days. February 2020.

2019

  • Fulbright Senior Specialist Peer Reviewer, World Learning. January 2017 - December 2019.
  • Organizer, "Tell Me This Didn't Happen": Poems on Truth. September 2019 - November 2019.
  • Presenter, Multicultural Curriculum Transformation and Research Institute. May 21, 2019.
  • Organizer, Hays County Food Bank Food Drive. April 1, 2019 - May 15, 2019.

2018

  • Graduate Marshal, University Commencement. December 14, 2018.
  • Composed examination prompts, MA Literature program. May 29, 2018.
  • Organizer, Visit by Fulbright Scholar Dr. Geetanjali Joshi (India). October 2017 - March 28, 2018.
  • Member, Hiring Committee. September 2017 - February 2018.
  • Department Representative, Bobcat Days. February 17, 2018.

2017

  • Graduate Marshal, University Commencement. December 16, 2017.
  • Speaker, American University of Kuwait. November 8, 2017.
  • Chair, Building Committee. 2006 - July 2017.
  • Associate Chair, Department of English. 2005 - July 2017.
  • Volunteer, Southside Community Center. January 2017 - June 2017.
  • Organizer, Visit and Lectures by Fulbright Scholar Ashima Bhardwaj (India). January 1, 2017 - June 21, 2017.
  • Panelist, Philosophy Dialogue Series: *Starving the Beast*. January 26, 2017.

2016

  • Thesis director, Thesis director, three theses. 2016.
  • Faculty Advisor for Visiting Research Scholar from China, English Department. 2015 - 2016.

2015

  • Fulbright Campus Representative, Texas State University. 2006 - 2015.
  • Thesis director, Thesis director, three theses. 2015.
  • Faculty Associate, Fulbright Scholar Dr. Komi Begedou, Togo, English Department. 2014 - 2015.
  • Participant, Faculty Learning Community for Globalization. 2014 - 2015.
  • Member, University Arts Committee. 2013 - 2015.
  • Member, Commencement Committee. 2009 - 2015.

2014

  • Thesis director, three theses. 2014.
  • Member, Suspension Appeals Committee. 2012 - 2014.
  • Faculty Advisor, Golden Key Honor Society. 2012 - 2014.

2013

  • Thesis director, four theses. 2013.
  • MA Literature Area Examination director, one student. 2013.
  • Faculty Advisor, Texas State Irish Studies Club. 2011 - 2013.
  • Member, Faculty Senate. 2007 - 2013.

2012

  • Member, Strategic Planning Committee for Internationalization. 2012.
  • Mace Bearer, Commencement. 2012.
  • Thesis director, four theses. 2012.
  • Panelist, Opportunities in International Education. 2012.
  • Member, Common Experience 2012 Committee. 2011 - 2012.
  • Secretary, Faculty Senate. 2009 - 2012.
  • Participant, Fulbright Campus Representative Workshop, San Juan, PR. November 1, 2012.

2011

  • reader, MA Literature Examination reader, one student. 2011.
  • Volunteer, Kuda Lumping” Indonesian Culture presentation, San Marcos Public Library. 2011.
  • Member, Common Experience proposal committee. 2011.
  • Mace Bearer, Commencement. 2011.
  • Chair, Advanced Studies Committee Interim Chair. 2010 - 2011.

2010

  • Member, President’s Task Force on Internationalization. 2010.
  • Member, Student Evaluations Committee. 2010.
  • Thesis reader, two theses. 2010.
  • Member, Professor Review Committee. 2008 - 2010.

2009

  • Mace Bearer, Commencement. 2009.
  • Panelist, Graduate Research Symposium, Graduate College. 2009.
  • Thesis reader, three theses. 2009.
  • Thesis director, three theses. 2009.
  • Member, Poetry Position Hiring Committee. 2008 - 2009.
  • Consultant, Multicultural Curriculum Transformation. 2006 - 2009.
  • Peer Review Specialist, Peer Review Specialist in U.S. Cultural Studies, Institute for International Education. 2006 - 2009.
  • Organizer, Graduate Student Colloquium Series. 2005 - 2009.

2008

  • Member, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board: Emerging Issues in Study Abroad, Austin. 2008.
  • Mace Bearer, Commencement. 2008.
  • Thesis director, four theses. 2008.
  • director, MA Literature Area Examination director, one student. 2008.
  • reader, MA Literature Area Examination reader, two students. 2008.
  • Member, Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute, Facilitator. May 2008.

2007

  • Mace Bearer, Commencement. 2007.
  • Thesis director, six theses. 2007.
  • Third reader, two theses. 2007.
  • Judge, Veterans of Foreign Wars Essay Contest. 2007.
  • Member, Presidential Upper Level Scholarship Committee. 2006 - 2007.
  • Participant, Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute, Facilitator. May 2007.

2006

  • Member, National Screening Committee, Fulbright-Hays Awards in Creative Writing, Institute for International Education. 2003 - 2006.
  • Thesis director, three theses. 2006.

2005

  • Thesis director, four theses. 2005.
  • Second reader, one thesis. 2005.
  • Peer Review Specialist, Peer Review Specialist in Creative Writing, Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright program). 2002 - 2005.
  • Member, Graduate Studies. 1998 - 2005.

2004

  • Thesis director, four theses. 2004.
  • Second reader, one thesis. 2004.
  • Member, Student Scholarship Support Task Force. 2003 - 2004.
  • Member, PhD Committee. 2001 - 2004.
  • Judge, Texas Association of Homes and Services for the Aging Poetry/Prose Contest. 2000 - 2004.
  • Faculty Sponsor, Persona. 1992 - 2004.

2003

  • Member, SWT Selection Committee, Who’s Who Among US College and University Students. 2003.
  • Member, SWT Student Service Fee Committee. 2003.
  • Chair, American Literature Rotation Committee. 2003.
  • Third reader, one thesis. 2003.
  • Second reader, one thesis. 2003.
  • Thesis director, three theses. 2003.
  • Director, SWT Summer Writing Camp. 1995 - 2003.
  • Director, SWT Summer Writing Camp. 1995 - 2003.

2002

  • Thesis director, Honors, one thesis. 2002.
  • Thesis director, Honors, one thesis. 2002.
  • Thesis director, one thesis. 2002.
  • Thesis director, one thesis. 2002.
  • Member, Academic Standards Committee. 1998 - 2002.

2001

  • Thesis director, one thesis. 2001.
  • President, Friends of the San Marcos Public Library. 2001.
  • Chair, Student Service Fee Committee. 1999 - 2001.
  • Member, Mitte Scholarship Renewal Committee. 1999 - 2001.
  • Member, Fulbright Association Arts Task Force. 1997 - 2001.

2000

  • Thesis director, Honors, one thesis. 2000.
  • Thesis director, two theses. 2000.
  • Vice-President, Friends of the San Marcos Public Library. 2000.
  • Member, Parking and Transportation Committee. 1998 - 2000.

1999

  • Thesis director, two theses. 1999.
  • Member, Student Service Fee Committee. 1998 - 1999.
  • Editor, ProsePoemPress. 1997 - 1999.

1998

  • Chair, American Literature Rotation Committee. 1998.
  • Thesis director, three theses. 1998.
  • Other, Therese Kayser Lindsey Chair of Literature Coordinator. 1995 - 1998.
  • Participant, Therese Kayser Lindsey Chair of Literature Steering Committee. 1992 - 1998.

1997

  • Thesis director, Honors, one thesis. 1997.
  • Second reader, two theses. 1997.
  • Thesis director, two theses. 1997.
  • Member, Planning Committee. 1995 - 1997.
  • Member, Texas Commission on the Arts' Arts-in-Education Roster. 1993 - 1997.

1996

  • Thesis director, Honors, one thesis. 1996.
  • Second reader, Honors, one thesis. 1996.
  • Second reader, one thesis. 1996.
  • Thesis director, two theses. 1996.

1995

  • Thesis Director, Honors, one thesis. 1995.
  • Thesis Director, three theses. 1995.
  • Volunteer, Out of One, Many: Teaching English in Romania. Faculty Lunch Lecture Series. October 1995.

1994

  • Speaker, The Messiah Figure in Sinclair and Steinbeck. Presentation to the SWT History Association. 1994.
  • Second Thesis Reader, one thesis. 1994.
  • Thesis Director, two theses. 1994.
  • Local Arrangements Chair, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Meeting. 1994.
  • Member, University Library Committee. 1993 - 1994.
  • Member, Board of Directors, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers. 1993 - 1994.
  • Faculty Editor, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. 1992 - 1994.
  • Editor, The Prose Poem. 1990 - 1994.
  • Director, SWT Summer Writing Camp. 1989 - 1994.
  • Member, Creative Writing Committee. 1987 - 1994.

1993

  • Volunteer, SOS Reading for the Homeless. 1993.
  • Representative, Non-Tenured Faculty Representative to Senior Faculty. 1991 - 1993.

1992

  • Coordinator / Organizer, Panel on the prose poem, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers meeting. 1992.
  • Volunteer, SOS Reading for the Homeless. 1992.

1991

  • Third Thesis Reader, one thesis. 1991.
  • Member, General Studies Examination in Writing Committee. 1990 - 1991.

1988

  • Coordinator / Organizer, Panel on Ethos in Protest Literature, Rhetoric Society of America Meeting. 1988.
  • Member, Textbook Selection Committee. 1987 - 1988.

1987

  • Member, Editorial Board, Freshman English News. 1985 - 1987.
  • Member, Board of Directors, Rhetoric Society of America. 1984 - 1987.