Don Bialostosky
Professor of English
412-624-6536
dhb2@pitt.edu
CL 509-J
Curriculum Vitae
http://pittsburgh.academia.edu/DonBialostosk
Don Bialostoskyis a Professor in the Composition: Literacy, Pedagogy, and Rhetoric group. He received his PhD in English in 1977 from the University of Chicago.
Research and Publications: He is the author of a long list of chapters and articles on the Romantics, with particular attention to Wordsworth and Coleridge, and on pedagogy, rhetoric, and dialogics.
He is the author of two books, Making Tales: The Poetics of Wordsworth's Narrative Experiments (U of Chicago P, 1984) and Wordsworth, Dialogics, and the Practice of Criticism Cambridge UP 1992). He is co-editor of the collection, Rhetorical Traditions and British Romantic Literature (Indiana UP, 1995). He has been a leading figure in thinking through the uses and consequences of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, especially with reference to pedagogy, composition, and rhetoric.
His current projects includes a book on Bakhtin and rhetoric and a rhetoric for readers. Don has served on the editorial boards of The Bakhtin Newsletter, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and Philosophy and Rhetoric.
Professional Service: He served on the MLA Delegate Assembly, the Board of Directors of the Society for Critical Exchange, the Executive Committees of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and of the Association of Departments of English; he served as President of ADE in 2001. He was head of Penn State's English department from 1996 through 2001. He has also taught at the University of Utah, the University of Washington, SUNY Stony Brook, and the University of Toledo, where he was a Distinguished University Professor of English.
Teaching: He regularly teaches undergraduates in Seminar in Composition, Introduction to Critical Reading, History of Criticism and senior seminars on Wordsworth. In addition to teaching Pitt’s required graduate courses History of Criticism and Seminar in Pedagogy, he has recently taught seminars entitled Theories and Arts of Discourse, Poetry as Utterance: Theory and Pedagogy, Research in Bakhtin School Rhetoric and Poetics, History of Rhetoric: Tropes and Figures, and History of Rhetoric: Romantic Writers and Classical Rhetoric. He won the GSO "Outstanding Graduate Teacher" award at Penn State in 1994.