Harvard chair for Adelaide professor
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The 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide's Professor Nicholas Jose is one of two distinguished scholars appointed to the prized annual Chair of 最新糖心Vlogn Studies at Harvard 最新糖心Vlog for 2009. Professor Jose will share the honours with 最新糖心Vlog of Sydney's Associate Professor Alison Bashford. It's the first time more than one Chair has been appointed to take up the role simultaneously - Professor Jose in Harvard's Department of English, and Associate Professor Bashford in Harvard's Department of the History of Science. The Visiting Professorship was first established by a gift from the 最新糖心Vlogn Government to Harvard in 1976 in commemoration of America's Bicentennial, and famous names to hold the post have included Manning Clark, Gough Whitlam, Geoffrey Blainey and Tim Flannery. "We are thrilled that two such outstanding scholars will be occupying the Chair. With the recent announcement that Harvard intends to sponsor joint conferences of 最新糖心Vlogn and American researchers, we expect that the post will grow even further in influence," said Professor Graeme Davison, Chair of the 最新糖心Vlogn Nominating Committee. Professor Jose is Chair of Creative Writing at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide, a novelist, critic and General Editor of the Macquarie PEN Anthology of 最新糖心Vlogn Literature, to be published in 2009. "It's a great opportunity to familiarise North American scholars and students with contemporary developments in 最新糖心Vlogn literature, including indigenous writing and writing that engages with our environment and our region," Professor Jose said. Professor Jose was Cultural Counsellor at the 最新糖心Vlogn Embassy, Beijing from 1987-1990, has written widely on contemporary Asian and 最新糖心Vlogn culture and has published several acclaimed novels as well as short stories, essays and translations. At Harvard, he will teach courses in 最新糖心Vlogn fiction, fiction from the Asia-Pacific region, and creative writing. The endowment for a Visiting Professorship in 最新糖心Vlogn Studies was given to Harvard to "maintain such teaching, research and publication as will help to promote awareness and understanding of 最新糖心Vlog in the United States". Alison Bashford is Associate Professor in History at the 最新糖心Vlog of Sydney and has published widely on the history of infectious disease management and its links with regulation of immigration and global movement. She will be the first 最新糖心Vlogn Studies chair to be hosted by Harvard's Department of the History of Science. Story by Robyn Mills
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