Dr Brian McDonnell 又出名了，要到Georgetown University讲课去了

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Massey film expert off to US as Fulbright lecturer

American university students will learn about New Zealand through films like Whale Rider and In My Father’s Den when Massey University media studies lecturer Dr Brian McDonnell takes up a Fulbright lectureship in the second semester next year.

He is the second Massey Auckland staff member in two years to be awarded a visiting lectureship at prestigious Georgetown University in Washington, where former President Bill Clinton studied.

Dr McDonnell will follow close behind his colleague Dr Adam Claasen, a history lecturer who held the visiting lectureship at Georgetown University’s Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies for the first semester of 2006. Only two academics are selected from throughout Australia and New Zealand each year for the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Programme.

In his tentatively titled course “Understanding New Zealand through film and literature”, he’ll share slices of New Zealand life via cinema and books with Year Two students. He plans to include Maori and Pacific Island cinematic stories such as Once Were Warriors, Whale Rider, Number 2 and Sione’s Wedding, as well as novels and poetry from a wide range of writers.

As author of New Zealand’s first doctoral thesis on film completed at Auckland University – on the relationship between New Zealand literature and film in the 1980s – Dr McDonnell is well-placed as a spokesperson for New Zealand’s cinematic evolution. He is also an international authority on Hollywood cinema and American film noir.

In fact, his first introduction to the handsome brownstone buildings that lend Georgetown its historic character and gentrified charm was seeing the 1973 shock horror film The Exorcist. Scenes from the film, which terrified audiences with special effects involving 360-degree head rotation and projectile vomiting by a young girl possessed by demons, were shot in Georgetown and on the campus.

Dr McDonnell understands the students he’ll encounter may have scant knowledge of New Zealand, and he’s expecting to fill in the gaps with basic background information on history, politics and geography, as well as to rectify any trans-Tasman misunderstandings. He’s heard that Whale Rider was promoted in one location as an Australian movie, and that its’ young Maori star Keisha Castle-Hughes was identified as Aborigine.

“Everyone who teaches there has to be a kind of explainer of NZ, an ambassador of all things NZ, which I’m quite happy to do,” he says.

Georgetown University, founded by Catholic Jesuit priests in 1789 and now ranked among the United States’ top academic institutions, is renowned as a “nursery” for diplomats and future senators and State Secretaries.

Politics will definitely be on everyone’s minds during his posting, which coincides with the US presidential elections.

“I think it’s going to the most interesting election since 1968, since Nixon got elected,” he says.

[ 本帖最后由 rain198491 于 2007-10-18 02:14 编辑 ]

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http://masseynews.massey.ac.nz/2007/Press_Releases/10-17-07c.html


Dr McDonnell 是 Albany campus教 media studies (154开头的paper)的老师，毕业于UCLA，聪明过人以至于有点秃头了。

去年在澳大利亚 who's the next millionair 竞猜游戏里，赢了不少钱。

据说在他在查学生作业里面引用书本上的观点，句子的时候，能够连页码，版本号都能说出来。





PS: 不过梅西的人文学院的确强，能够在两年之内有2位拿到 Fulbright Scholarship的老师

[ 本帖最后由 rain198491 于 2007-10-18 02:05 编辑 ]

HM

以MASSEY为荣~~~


RAIN劳驾翻译下关键句吧~

香.香

他早就很出名了，可是他走了梅西怎么办？

rain198491

他明年下半年才去教课吧，只是暂时的。不要太害怕

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原帖由 juliajinjin 于 2007-10-19 01:09 发表
“梅西的人文学院的确强，能够在两年之内有2位拿到 Fulbright Scholarship的老师“

真僞選了massey的 humanities and social science department而高興....

我觉得这个还是要看专业的，梅西人文学院里的有些专业的确有不少好的老师。

在我印象里以下专业都师资力量都不错：

心理学，传媒学，语言学，历史学，社会工作，社会学

其他的专业就不行了，像人类学 就2，3个老师在撑着。普遍感觉这里人文学院老师工作量大。

小马奔腾

这家伙。。
明天去找他

小朋友Ric

他很有才的

他只去一年，还是会回来的