Bob Dylan in China: Visions of Beatitude School of English & School of Modern Languages and Cultures The University of Hong Kong RR207, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU 31 May 2011(Tuesday), 5 - 7pm *No registration is required.

Speaker

Rob Wilson is Professor of transnational/postcolonial literatures at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He taught for many years at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and his many publications include Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production; Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary; Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics and the New Pacific; and Reimagining the American Pacific: From 'South Pacific' to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond. His study Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics appeared with Harvard University Press in 2009 and a collection of cultural criticism from Asia/Pacific (co-edited with Christopher Connery), The Worlding Project: Doing Cultural Studies in the Era of Globalization, appeared with New Pacific Press/ North Atlantic Books in 2007. For more information on Professor Wilson see http://www2.ucsc.edu/aparc/rwilson.htm.

Enquiries:

Tel: 2859 2000
Email: smlc@hku.hk