"This well crafted and richly illustrated book will be essential reading for teachers who cross cultural and pedagogical borders, either overseas or at home in increasingly internationalized classrooms. Slethaug examines 'Eastern' and 'Western' approaches

"Just about everyone who will teach abroad or face international students - regardless of the setting or subject - will also face the challenges that Gordon E. Slethaug explores in Teaching Abroad. How can educators better recognize and respect cultural d

Gordon E. Slethaug is Visiting Lingnan Professor at the University of Hong Kong and Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. Formerly Chairman of English at the University of Waterloo and Director of American Studies at the University of Hong Kong, he works with the Lingnan Foundation (New Haven, CT) linking the University of Hong Kong and Sun Yat-sen University through a Transnationalism and America project that focuses on American culture, interdisciplinary methodology, and team teaching. He has recently been Senior Fulbright Professor in American Studies and English at the University of Southern Denmark-Kolding. His research interests center on cross-cultural pedagogy as well as the contemporary American novel, film, and culture. In addition to Teaching Abroad International Education and the Cross-Cultural University Classroom, he is the author of Beautiful Chaos Chaos Theory and Metachaotics in Recent American Fiction, The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction, and author of Understanding John Barth.