MA, University of Nebraska
BA, Pacific Lutheran University
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I have taught at universities in Canada, China, Denmark, Hong Kong, and the United States, and draw from these experiences in my teaching and writing. At the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ (head of the English Department and Associate Dean of Graduate Programs in Arts) until 1995, I then taught at the University of Hong Kong (Director of American Studies and Lingnan Professor) from 1995 to 2008. From 2004 to 2008, I was awarded a four-year grant from the Lingnan Foundation (Yale and New York City) to bring team teaching, interdisciplinary methodology, American studies, and English-language instruction to the classroom at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou and to bridge American Studies activities and research between the University of Hong Kong and Sun Yat-sen University, and I have written widely on the faculty and student learning transformation that occurred as a result of this project. I remain an Honorary Professor in Arts at the University of Hong Kong.
From 2008 until 2012, I taught American culture and communication subjects at the University of Southern Denmark, where I had earlier been awarded a Senior Fulbright Professorship. My courses there included: the History and Culture of New York City; the Road in American Culture; Contemporary American literature; Asian American Culture; International Teaching and Learning; Intercultural Communications; Media and Communications; Identity, Culture, and Learning; Human Resource Management (HRM), Organizations and Communications; and Communications and Globalization. My current teaching at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ focuses on American culture, rhetoric, and issues of internationalization.
Selected publications
Books
Co-edited with Jane Vinther. International Teaching and Learning at Universities: Achieving Equilibrium with Local Culture and Pedagogy. New York: Plagrave Macmillan, 2015.Â
Adaptation Theory and Criticism: Postmodern Literature and Cinema in the USA. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.
Co-edited with Stacilee Ford. Hit the Road, Jack: the History and Culture of the Road in America. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2012.
Co-edited with Janette Ryan, International Education and the Chinese Learner. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press, 2010.
Teaching Abroad: The Cross-Cultural Classroom and International Education. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press, 2007, and Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Beautiful Chaos: Chaos Theory and Metachaotics in Recent American Fiction. Albany: State University Press of New York, 2000.
Co-edited with Michael Larsen. Doubles and Doubling in the Contemporary Arts. Special double issue of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. 1. 6.2-3 (1994).
The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993.
With Stanley Fogel. Understanding John Barth. Columbus: University of South Carolina Press, 1993.
Articles and chapters
"Mapping the Trope: A Historical and Cultural Journey" and "Postmodern Masculinities in Recent Buddy and Solo Road Films." In Hit the Road, Jack: the History and Culture of the Road. Eds. Gordon E. Slethaug and Stacilee Ford. Montreal: McGill-Queens UP, 2012.
"Cross-Cultural Team-Teaching in China: A Retrospective View." In Understanding China's Education Reform: Creating Cross Cultural Knowledge, Pedagogies and Dialogue. Ed. Janette Ryan. London: Routledge, 2010.
"Something Happened While Nobody was Looking: The Growth of International Education and the Chinese Learner." In International Education and the Chinese Learner. Eds. Janette Ryan and Gordon Slethaug. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press, 2010. 15-36.
"Spike Lee, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X: The Politics of Domination and Difference." In I sing the Body Politic: History as Prophecy in Contemporary American Literature. Ed. Peter Swirski. Montreal: McGill-Queens U Press, 2009. 113-148.
"Class, Ethnicity, Race, and Economic Opportunity: the Idea of Order in Scorsese's Gangs of New York and Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing."ÌýJournal of American Studies (Korea) 40.1 (2008): 149-183.