关于美国特拉华大学英语系著名教授Mckay Jenkins讲座通知
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我校合作院校美国特拉华大学英语系著名教授McKay Jenkins将于3月30日来访我校并于当天下午在漳州校区为我校学生作题为：What?s Gotten Into Us: Toxic Chemicals, Environmental Challenges, and the Promise of Chinese-American Collaboration in the Environmental Humanities的讲座。
Jenkins教授著有多部畅销图书，其中《a Silent Spring for the human body》曾荣登纽约时报畅销书之列。
讲座地点：漳州校区四号楼213教室
讲座时间：3月30日下午16:40-17:40
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Mckay Jenkins教授简介：
McKay Jenkins has been writing about people and the natural world for 25 years. He is the author of What?s Gotten Into Us: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World (Random House, 2011), which chronicles his investigation into the myriad synthetic chemicals we encounter in our daily lives, and the growing body of evidence about the harm these chemicals do to our bodies and the environment.
His other books include Bloody Falls of the Coppermine: Madness and Murder in the Arctic Barren Lands (Random House, 2005), the true tale of a pair of French Catholic missionaries who were murdered in the Arctic by a pair of Inuit hunters, and the trial and troubling cultural consequencs of this strange and fascinating event.
His book The Last Ridge: The Epic Story of the U.S. Army?s 10th Mountain Division and the Assault on Hitler?s Europe (Random House, 2003) tells the story of America?s most famous mountain soldiers. It recounts the division?s exploits training at high altitudes in Colorado and its heroic missions in the mountains of Italy during World War Two.
The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone (Random House, 2000) is the true story of five young mountaineers who, after setting out to make the first winter ascent of the highest peak in Montana?s Glacier National Park, were killed in a massive avalanche that led to one of the country?s largest search and rescue missions.
The South in Black and White: Race, Sex, and Literature in the 1940s (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1999) explores the influence of racial history and sexual mores on the literature of the American South in the decades immediately preceding the Civil Rights Movement.
Jenkins is also the editor of The Peter Matthiessen Reader (Vintage, 2000), an anthology of the American nature writer?s finest and most enduring nonfiction work.
Jenkins holds degrees from Amherst, Columbia?s Graduate School of Journalism, and Princeton, where he received a PhD in English. A former staff writer for the Atlanta Constitution, he has also written for Outside, Orion, The New Republic, and many other publications. Jenkins is currently the Cornelius Tilghman Professor of English and Director of Journalism at the University of Delaware, where he has won the Excellence in Teaching Award. He lives in Baltimore with his family.
个人主页：
http://mckayjenkins.com/
学校主页：
http://www.english.udel.edu/content/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=488
