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诺曼·斯潘塞博士曾在非洲、中国和美国的大学任教，包括1982-1983年在中国的天津外国文化大学和2001-2002年在北京的广播学院。他写过非洲、西印度和非洲裔美国人的文化和政治文章。他与Shirley Geok一起编辑了一个文学世界(霍顿米夫林，1993年出版)。他还编辑了中国先锋诗人画家严力的书并做了序言(德黑兰，2006年出版)。2007年，他接受了关于他在中国的文化活动的采访于2007年在北岛编辑的《今天》上刊出。他出版了一本关于中国独立和地下电影的摄影回忆录，在20周年时于亚洲评论(杜克大学出版社，2012出版)，另外，他的摄影作品“通过我的视角感受世界”，2014年由雅昌Artron艺术集团北京出版。目前加州大学圣地亚哥分校正在收集他的中国和越南当代文化摄影作品。斯宾塞教授在1960年代早期美国南方的民权运动中很活跃，在那首著名歌曲“我们将战胜”流行之时，他曾就读于高地民间学校。他是SNCC和SDS的一员，是Sewanee的学生，那时南方大学内种族隔离情况比较严重，他多次参加了反对种族隔离的抗议活动。他作为美国海军水手参加了越战,但很快就回国参与了反战运动。他在旧金山州立大学读硕士时，那里是黑人艺术运动的中心，这也导致了他之后在美国纽约州立大学石溪布鲁克斯州立大学写了关于激进的非裔美国作家、知识分子和政治活动家Amiri Baraka / LeRoi Jones的博士论文。Spencer教授目前住在纽约市，在纽约州奈索大学全职教授英语。他与中国人彭筱剑于2004年在上海结婚。他们在中国南部云南省老达莱附近的白族（少数民族）村有一所房屋，作为他们寒暑假的度假之地。
Norman A. Spencer, Ph.D. has taught at universities in Africa, China and the United States including Tianjin Foreign Cultures University in China from 1982-1983 and China Communications University in Beijing from 2001-2002. He has written on African, West Indian and African American culture and politics. He edited with Shirley Geok - Li Lim One World of Literature (Houghton Mifflin, 1993.) He edited and wrote the introduction for Yan Li’s book Things Are Symbols of Themselves (Shanghai,2006.) An interview with him about his cultural activities in China was published in BeiDao’s Jintian (Today) in Hong Kong in 2007. He published a photography memoir with commentary on Chinese independent and underground cinema in the twentieth anniversary issue of Positions: Asia Critique (Duke University Press, 2012) And his photography book I Experience the World through My Lens was published by Artron Art Group / Yachang Beijing in 2014. The University of California at San Diego is collecting his Chinese and Vietnamese contemporary culture photography in digitaland printed out  formats. Professor Spencer was active in the Civil Rights Movement in the American South during the early 1960s. He attended the Highlander Folk School where the famous song“We Shall Overcome” originated. He was a member of SNCC and SDS while he was a student at Sewanee: The University of the South which was racially segregated during this period. Later he fought in the Vietnam War as a seaman in the U.S. Navy but was active in the anti-war movement when he returned to the U.S. He did a M.A. at San Francisco State University when it was a center for the Black Arts Movement and laterwrote a Ph.D dissertation under the direction Amiri Baraka/ LeRoi Jones, the radical African American writer, intellectual and political activist, at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.Professor Spencer currently lives in New York City and is a full time professor of English at State University of New York at Nassau. He is married to Peng Xiaojian (Shanghai, 1974). They have a house in a Bai (minority) village near Old Dali in Yunnan Province in the south of China where they spend their vacations and sabbatical leaves.