As part of the celebrations of the 10th Anniversary of the Faculty of English, the Department of American Literature would like to cordially invite everyone to a lecture by prof. Robert Westerfelhaus, a Fulbright scholar from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. The lecture is titled “Some Unique Facets of American Diversity”. The event will be held on April 27, at 9:45 am, in Sala Górna at the Faculty of English (Collegium Heliodori Święcicki).
The talk will focus on several distinctive American groups that contribute to the unique American diversity: the Mohawk, Creole Voodoo practitioners, Charleston's Gullah community, the Amish and Mennonites, the Navajo, Vietnamese and Tejanos in Houston, and Poles in Chicago.
Brief Bio: Robert Westerfelhaus earned his B.A. from Ohio Dominican College (1994) and his M.A. (1996) and Ph.D.(1999) from Ohio University. He is currently a Professor at the College of Charleston, in South Carolina, where he has been teaching in the Department of Communication since 2002. In 2009-2010, Dr Westerfelhaus was a Fulbright Fellow at UMCS in Lublin, Poland. He is currently back at UMCS as a Fulbright Fellow and the Distinguished Chair of Humanities for the 2021-2022 academic year. Dr Westerfelhaus has published numerous journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries about American popular culture as viewed through the dual lenses of rhetoric and semiology.