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The purpose of the London Centre is to provide undergraduates looking to explore the city's unique performance, art, architectural, and historical resources, an academic framework for rigorous study of the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Delivered primarily by British faculty, the programme of learning is supported by home stay accommodation and programme activities designed to achieve social integration and a meaningful stay in the country.

Over the years, the Centre has assembled an extraordinary team of faculty members from all corners of the London 's city limits. In most cases, faculty members are also practitioners within their chosen field of study. Since most don't just teach in London but also pursue their passions there, the experience they bring to the classroom for students is unrivalled. Committed to learning and to excellence, students will learn to think critically and creatively about the world around them while studying at the Centre.

  

Faculty members include:

  • Constitutional Consultant, Dr. Andreas Staab
  • Historian, Dr. Keith Surridge
  • Director, actress, scriptwriter, Dr. Jean Elliott
  • Art historian, artist, Carole Machin
  • Theatre historian, actress, director, Althea Stewart
  • Literature professor, reviewer, author, Dr. Susie Thomas
  • Political historian, Dr. Martin Upham
  • Historian, Judy Dobbs
  • Educational consultant, Dr. Julie Andreshak-Behrman
  • BBC Journalist and Media lecturer, Christopher Cook
  • Times correspondent and former Downing St. press officer, Sheila Gunn
  • Media professor, Dr. Graham Barnfield
  • Management Consultant (and our Interns Coordinator), Natasha Tobin FCIPR


Natasha Tobin has worked for 20 years in corporate communications and news. This has included leading high profile projects for two Prime Ministers. She has also led PR for Thomson Travel, a consortium of scheduled airlines, electricity utilities and the arts. She holds an MA in Corporate Communications from Bournemouth University and is a Fellow and elected Council Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. She has taught at Birkbeck College, University of London, National School of Government and Bournemouth University Media School.


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Visiting Faculty - London 2012
     
Winter Quarter    


Warren Ginsberg, University of Oregon
English Literature: Chaucer;
Later Shakespeare

Warren Ginsberg graduated with an MA from SUNY at Stony Brook in 1971; he received his Ph.D. in MedievalStudies from Yale University in 1975. He has taught at Yale and SUNY at Albany; he joined the faculty at the University of Oregon in 2000. Among other honors, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1999; Distinguished Professor of English in 2003; and Knight Professor of Humanities in 2007. His work has focused especially on the aesthetic, social, and political aspects of cross-cultural translation in Middle English, Medieval Italian, and classical Latin works. His books include Chaucer's Italian Tradition (University of Michigan Press, 2002); Dante's Aesthetics of Being (University of Michigan Press, 1999); The Cast of Character: The Representation of Personality in Ancient and Medieval Literature (University of Toronto Press, 1983); he is also editor of "Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages," Middle English Texts Series, 1992. He has published many articles on Chaucer, Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Ovid. His current project is a book called Ovid in Rome; Ovid in the Middle Ages.

     
Spring Quarter    
  Alexandra Bonds, University of Oregon
Theater Arts: Reinventing Yourself: A Living History of Tudor London;
Fashion and Costume: Past into Present

Alexandra Bonds is the Professor of Costume Design at the University of Oregon. She first traveled to England in the 1960’s to buy Beatles magazines and souvenirs. Now her tastes in British culture have expanded to include theatre, art museums, clothing and textiles, stately homes, and historical sites. Based on experiences gained from frequent travel to England, she is well versed in both the aesthetics and visual language of London and the surrounds, as well as the practical aspects of locating affordable food and navigating the tube.
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