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W. Scott McLean

Lecturer in Comparative Literature
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Email: wsmclean@ucdavis.edu
Office: 809 Sproul Hall
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Introduction
He began his college career in fisheries biology, but later changed his field of study to German language and literature and wrote a dissertation on "The Revision of Wilderness in Friedrich Hölderlin's Late Poetry." He teaches a variety of courses for Comparative Literature, and co-teaches two Nature and Culture courses. His publications include articles on the 18th-c. German poet Friedrich Hölderlin as well as on modern literary figures Gary Snyder and Norman Maclean, and he is a published poet himself.He is the editor of The Real Work, and a collection of interviews and talks with Gary Snyder, and of a book on Rock-&-Roll and poetry, Chasing A Song, and three books of poetry.