Don E. Wayne, chair of the literature department, was appointed Revelle College provost last week. Wayne will replace current provost Daniel Wulbert at the beginning of July.
Wayne taught at Ohio State University before joining the UCSD faculty in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in literature from UCSD and served as the department’s chair for the past four years.
Wayne has received several fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Huntington Library and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. His research interests include early modern studies, U.S. culture from 1945 to 1960, history of literary studies in education, critical theory and interdisciplinary studies.
‘Professor Wayne’s administrative and academic accomplishments and his commitment to undergraduate education make him exceptionally well-qualified to provide leadership as provost of Revelle College,’ Paul W. Drake, senior vice chancellor of academic affairs, said in a statement. ‘I’m delighted that he has accepted this important and challenging position.’
Wayne was chosen by a search committee chaired by Barbara Sawrey, associate vice chancellor of undergraduate education.
‘The committee was impressed with Professor Wayne’s … deep commitment to enhancing the diversity of the campus,’ Sawrey said in a statement.
Wayne is also known for his work on relations between poetry and early modern science with particular emphasis on Ben Jonson and Francis Bacon. He received his bachelor’s degree from Queens College in New York. Wayne completed his graduate education at Hunter College, also in New York, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
‘I’m particularly excited about serving as provost of Revelle College because it was the first of [UCSD’s] six colleges, and as such, its curriculum embodies many of the educational principles and ideas of the educational leaders who planned UCSD,’ Wayne said in a statement.