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Laura Penny (born 1975) is a Canadian academic and the author of the bestselling ''Your Call is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit'', a study of the phenomenon of bullshit and its role in modern society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Laura Penny )〕 Penny was featured on ''60 Minutes'' with Princeton professor Harry Frankfurt, author of the similarly themed treatise, ''On Bullshit''.〔 Includes link to video.〕 Penny is an occasional contributor to the ''Globe and Mail''. She has also written for the ''National Post'', ''Saturday Night'', ''Chatelaine'', and ''Toronto Life'' (for which she is also a contributing editor). Penny holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York. From 2002 to 2006, she taught at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she was a Senior Fellow in the Foundation Year Programme.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Laura Penny )〕 She then went on to teach at Halifax's Mount Saint Vincent University and Saint Mary's University〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Dr. Laura Penny )〕 while still giving occasional lectures at King's College.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Laura Penny )〕 , she has returned to King's, teaching courses in the Contemporary Studies & Early Modern Studies programs. Penny published ''More Money Than Brains: Why School Sucks, College is Crap, and Idiots Think They're Right,'' a consideration of anti-intellectualism and a defence of the arts and humanities in 2010. == Bibliography == * * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laura Penny」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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