Faculty

Pells, Richard
Professor

Office: GAR 2.206
Office Hours: Spring 2009: T 9:30-11:00 AM
Phone: 512-475-7242
richard.pells@gmail.com

Education: PhD, 1969, Harvard University

Research interests:
Professor Pells is a specialist in 20th Century American cultural and intellectual history.

Courses taught:
His current interest is in the global impact of American culture, and the ways that foreign cultures have affected the United States.

Geographic Area(s) of Study: United States

Thematic Field(s): Empire and Globalization; Intellectual History; International Relations; Visual and Material Cultures

Recent Publications:
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. He is now at work on a book, From Modernism to the Movies: The Globalization of American Culture in the 20th Century, to be published by Yale University Press. 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.