Bulletin Number Five 1983

Profiles Dr. Peter Joel Glassman Senior Lect urer ， Depar tment o f English Dr. Glassman, a graduate o f Columbia University, obtained his BA in 1967 ， MA in 1968 and PhD in 1972. He served as an instructor in the English Department o f his alma mater in 68-71 and then as Assistant Professor o f English and Comparative Literature in 72-77. He joined Newcomb College, Tulane University in 1977 as Associate Professor o f English and stayed there un til his appointment as Senior Lecturer at the English Department o f this University last year. Dr. Glassman has demonstrated himself to be a bom teacher, having received an MLA Teaching Award, Columbia University (1971) and Newcomb College, Tulane University Outstanding Teacher Award (1981). His publications include Language and Being: Joseph Conrad and the Literature o f Personality (New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1976 )， and articles and essay-reviews in academic journals. Another o f his book entitled J.S. M ill: The Evolution o f a Genius is now in press. It is about the life and literature o f John Stuart M ill. He is now preparing a book-length study on nineteenth-century English novel, in which attention is focused on some o f the ways major novelists o f the period simultaneously defied and deferred to the authority o f civilization. He also speaks o f ambivalence and anger as the controlling principles o f the nineteenth-century novelistic discourse. Dr. Robert Teoh Senior Lecturer ， Depar tment o f Medicine Dr. Robert Teoh graduated MB, BS (Newcastle-Upon- Tyne) in June 1971. After general medical training , he proceeded to the MRCP in 1974. In the same year his neurological training began, in itia lly under Sir John Walton in Newcastle and continued in London at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, Guy's Hospital, and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital where he was a Medical Research Council Fellow. In the year prior to returning to Hong Kong, he was on the faculty o f the Department o f Neurology o f the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A. Dr. Teoh's special areas o f expertise in Neuro­ logy are neuromuscular diseases and neuropathology. These interests are indeed reflected in his research, which include: the effects o f undernutrition on muscle growth, for which he was awarded the MD degree; experimental strategies in the treatment o f experi­ mental allergic myasthenia gravis; and Schwann cell — muscle interaction. 36 PROFILES