主讲人：William Baker教授

讲座时间：2017年 11月13日10:00-11:30

讲座地点：外国语学院422会议室

承办单位：外国语学院

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William Baker教授简介:

Professor William Baker has authored, co-authored or edited over thirty volumes. He edits George Eliot – George Henry Lewes Studies, is book review editor and consultant for Style and coedits The Year’s Work in English Studies published by Oxford University Press for the English Association who “in recognition of major contributions to the English Association” made William Baker an Honorary Fellow.

Currently Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University, he was honored as a Board of Trustees professor for teaching, service and research and awarded a Distinguished Research professorship. The author of over two hundred refereed articles, reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement, he is currently working on a two volume A Reference and Critical Guide to Anglo-Jewish Writing. He has lectured internationally and in China at various universities including Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, where he was visiting Professor, and received outstanding teaching evaluations.Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion, edited Kenneth Womack and James Decker [Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016], is a tribute by colleagues and students to Baker’s impact on them and contributions to Literary Studies that includes work on Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, and William Shakespeare.