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GILES GUNN
University of California, Santa Barbara

Giles Gunn is Chair and Professor of Global & International Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara, and Professor of English. His areas of academic interest include: American Literary, Cultural, Intellectual, and Religious Studies; Global Theory and Culture, Global Ethics, and Globalization of Literature. He teaches in the area of Theories of inter- and Cross-Cultural Understanding; Global History, Cultures, and Ideologies, Literature and Modern Terror, Global Literatures, and Democracy and Modern American Literature.  His most recent books are: America and the Misshaping of a New World Order, to be published by University of California Press, 2009; Beyond Solidarity: Pragmatism and Difference in a Globalized World  (University of Chicago Press, 2001); Thinking  Across the American Grain: Ideology, Intellect, and the New Pragmatism (University of Chicago Press, 1992).  He was  editor of the Church, State, and American Culture (University of North Caroline Press, 1984), and editor, of the Bible and American Arts and Letters (Fortress 1983).  His other works in progress include “Defending Human in an Age of Terror,” and “Ideas to Die For: Pragmatism in a World of Terror,” in Pragmatism and Globalism, ed. Thomas C. Hilde.

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