RICHARD PELLS
Presentation:
- «How Europeans Have Loved, Hated and Transformed American Culture since World War II» (Spring Semester 2000)
Dr. Richard Pells, Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas, Austin, is a specialist in 20th Century American cultural and intellectual history. His current interest is in the global impact of American culture, and the ways that foreign cultures have affected the United States. His books include Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years; The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s; and Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture Since World War II. Modernist America: Art, Music, Movies, and the Global Impact of American Culture is a forthcoming book. Prof. Pells has taught abroad at the universities of Sao Paulo, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Sydney, Bonn, Berlin, Cologne, and Vienna. He writes often for newspapers and magazines, including The International Herald Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1969.