Goals

The workshop is organized by School of Writing, Literature and Film, Oregon State University. During the program, a select group of students from the College of Literature, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China will participate in intensive lectures, discuss sessions and other activities. The main goals of the workshop:

• Introduce major theories and methods in literary study and related humanistic fields through interdisciplinary discuss sessions and case studies.
• Enhance college-level English academic writing and graduate-level research and writing skills.
• Experience American culture in-depth and understand major issues in contemporary American society.

Topics

Literary Analysis

Film Theory and Analysis

Visual Cultural Study

English-Language Academic Writing

People

Director: Lei Xue 

Academic Coordinator: Raymond Malewitz  

Faculty

Karen Holmberg (PhD, U. Missouri), Associate Professor of English

Neil Davison (PhD, U. Maryland), Professor of English

Jon Lewis (PhD, UCLA), University Distinguished Professor of English

Raymond Malewitz (PhD, U. Virginia), Associate Professor of English

Kirsi Potalmaki (PhD, Rochester), Professor of Art History

Jillian St. Jacques (PhD, University of Amsterdam), Senior Instructor  of English

Jennifer Reimer Recio (PhD, Berkeley), Assistant Professor of American Studies

Daniele Vi Lodovico (PhD, U. Washington), Instructor of Art History

Megan Ward (PhD, Rutgers), Associate Professor of English

Lei Xue (PhD, Columbia), Associate Professor of Art History