Provost's Staff

Richard Wheeler
Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate College

204 Swanlund Administration Building
601 E. John Street
Champaign, IL  61820
Phone: (217) 333-2466
Fax: (217) 244-5639
rpw@illinois.edu

Assistants:
Jane Baumgartner, (217) 333-2466
Lynn Schaefer, (217) 244-5948

Richard Wheeler is Vice Provost (with responsibilities for strategic initiatives and strategic plan implementation) and Dean of the Graduate College. He joined the Illinois Department of English in 1969, and served as department head from 1987-97. Before joining the Graduate College as dean in 2000, he was acting head of the Department of Anthropology for a year. His publications include Shakespeare’s Development and the Problem Comedies: Turn and Counter-Turn (U of California P, 1981), The Whole Journey: Shakespeare’s Power of Development (co-authored with C. L. Barber, U of California P, 1986), Creating Elizabethan Tragedy (ed., U of Chicago P, 1988), Critical Essays on Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure (ed., G. K. Hall, 1999), and articles on Shakespeare, Elizabethan drama, literary theory, and modern British literature.

He has been chair of the executive committee of the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools, chair of the CIC graduate deans’ group and chair of the Board of Directors of the Council of Graduate Schools. He has served on several national panels on graduate education, including the National Research Council’s Committee on an Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs, the CGS Government Relations Task Force, and Graduate Education 2020.