讲座通知
讲座人 ：Prof. Peter Swirski
题目 ：The Literary and Social History of the American Language
时间 ：2011年11月3日（星期四）下午3：00
地点 ：外国语学院学术报告厅（四号楼五层4502)
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Professor Peter Swirski简介：
Peter Swirski is Professor and Research Director at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Honorary Professor at the Center for American Studies at Jinan University, and mmber of the Executive Council of the International American Studies Association (IASA).
His research ranges from American Literature and American Studies to interdisciplinary studies in literature, philosophy, and science. He is also the world’s foremost critic on the late writer and philosopher, Stanislaw Lem.
Featured on European, Russian, and Hong Kong TV, he is the author of twelve acclaimed books, including the bestselling From Lowbrow to Nobrow (2005), and the enthusiastically praised and National Book Award-nominated Ars Americana, Ars Politica (2010).
His work has been reviewed from The New York Times Book Review to the Financial Times and from the Columbia Journal of American Studies to Philosophy and Literature.
More information about him, please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Swirski