Bulletin Number Five 1986

Profiles Professor David Punter Dr. Neil Holbert Dr. Charles F. Warnock Professor David Punter Professor, Department of English Professor David Punter, 37 ， studied English at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, taking his BA in 1970 and MA in 1974. He was appointed Lecturer in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia (UEA), England, in 1973. He gained his PhD from Cambridge in 1984; and was promoted to Senior Lecturer at UEA in 1985. During his time at UEA, he served as Sector Chairman for English Studies, and as Chairman of Graduate Studies. He was also a University Senator. Beginning in the mid-1970s, Professor Punter also trained as a group relations analyst at the Tavistock and Grubb Institutes in London, and has practised as an educational and organizational consultant in the United Kingdom, the United States, and various European countries. Since 1979 ， he also worked with the Development of University English Teaching Project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation; becoming Director of the Project in 1985. His literary interests were originally in the eighteenth century and the romantic period, latterly in more modern literature. He is also interested in pedagogy and the psychology of learning, and in psychoanalysis, particularly in its application to organizations and institutions. He was Visiting Professor in Modern literature at Fudan University, Shanghai in 1983; and would date his interest in East/West cultural relations from that time. His published works are extensive, including some forty articles and essays, and six books: The Literature of Terror, Romanticism and Ideology ， Blake, Hegel and Dialectic, The Hidden Script, Introduction to Contemporary Cultural Studies; and China and Glass, his first book of poetry. Dr. Neil Holbert Senior Lecturer, Department of Marketing & International Business Dr. Neil Holbert's background has been in business, teaching, writing, and the academic-business interface. Over the span of three decades, Dr. Holbert has worked in marketing research, marketing planning and advertising for such companies as Philip Morris ， Inc. in Hong Kong, Australia, Japan and in his 'home' city of New York; Grey Advertising; and Chesebrough- Pond's. During this period, he has also taught a whole spectrum of the Marketing curriculum for both undergraduates and graduates in Columbia University, New York University and Queen's College. Most recently, he has been a Visiting Fellow in Marketing at the David Syme Business School in Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Holbert has written a book, three monographs and dozens of articles. His principal interest has always been the communication of ideas about the business world and the society outside, and their useful application to the marketplace. Dr. Charles F. Warnock Senior Lecturer, MBA Division Dr. Warnock received his Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida in 1950, MSc in R & D Management and PhD in Business Administration in 1965 and 1968 respectively from Florida State University. Dr. Warnock began his career as an engineer. He worked in various companies in South America and the United States from 1950 to 1963. He joined NASA as Section Head of the Malfunction Investigation Section, Materials Analysis Branch, Kennedy Space Center, Florida in 1963. After obtaining his PhD degree, he returned to the Space Center and took up the post of Assistant to Branch Head, Materials Analysis Branch until 1968. Dr. Warnock PROFILES 21