Speaker: Ronald Schleifer (University of Oklahoma, U.S.A.)

Date: March 18, 2014 – Tuesday

Time: 10:00

Venue: R361, Bld5, Songjiang Campus

Language: English

Speaker Biography: Professor Schleifer is George Lynn Cross Research Professor of English and Adjunct Professor in the College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma. From 1976 to 2000 he served as Editor of Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture; and from 1986 to 1999 he served as co-editor of The Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory, a series of books published by the University of Oklahoma Press. In 1999 he was the Director of the Annual Convention for the Society for Literature and Science, held in Norman. Presently, he is co-editor of Mariner 10: Cross-Disciplinary DVD ROMS, a series of electronic, interactive titles published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Professor Schleifer has written, translated, or edited 19 books. The most recent include Intangible Materialism: The Body, Scientific Knowledge, and the Power of Poetry (Minnesota, 2009); Medicine and Humanistic Understanding, a DVD-ROM (Pennsylvania, 2005), co-authored with Jerry Vannatta, MD and Sheila Crow; Modernism and Time: The Logic of Abundance in Literature, Science, and Culture 1880- 1930, (Cambridge, 2000); and Analogical Thinking: Post-Enlightenment Understanding of Language, Collaboration, and Interpretation (Michigan, 2000). He also edited (with David Jobling and Tina Pippin) A Postmodern Bible Reader (Blackwell, 2001) and (with Robert Con Davis) Contemporary Literary Criticism, now in its fourth edition (Longman, 1998).

In recent years, Professor Schleifer has been invited to lecture in Lausanne, Moscow, Salzburg, China, and Singapore. He teaches twentieth-century literature and literary and cultural theory for undergraduate and graduate students and courses on literature and medicine at the Norman and OU Health Sciences Center campuses. He has also developed a seminar for scholarly writing for graduate students, which he offers at OU and in annual workshops in Denmark.