TCU’s Center for International Studies: TCU Abroad and the Frost Foundation Lectureship for Global Issues will host Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, as this year’s keynote speaker on Monday, Aug. 20, 2012 at 6 p.m. in the Brown-Lupton University Ballroom.

A prolific and nimble thought leader, Carr has written more than a dozen articles and interviews for Harvard Business Review and writes regularly for the Financial Times, Strategy & Business and The Guardian. His articles have also appeared in the New York Times, MIT Sloan Management Review, Wired, Business 2.0, Boston Globe, Industry Standard, The Banker, Director, BusinessWeek Online as well as in his popular blog, Rough Type. Carr has served as a commentator on CNBC, CNN, and other networks and has been a featured speaker worldwide at industry, educational, and government forums.

A Pulitzer Prize nominee and former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, Nicholas Carr writes and speaks on technology, business, culture, and economics. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A., in English literature, from Harvard University.

His 2004 book, Does IT Matter? : Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage, was a bestseller and kept the worldwide business community discussing the role of computers and IT in business. Also a business bestseller, his 2008 book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, examined the future of computing and its implications for business and society. The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, was selected as a Pulitzer Prize finalist and is a New York Times bestseller. It has received unprecedented international acclaim and has instigated provocative global conversation.

For more information on the event, visit www.studyabroad.tcu.edu.