作为华盛顿美国大学的教授，他于1970年加入该学院，拉森博士教授了一些向非洲裔作家提供给美国学生的第一堂课。在文学经典几乎全部由英美作家的作品组成的时候，他帮助包括Achebe和尼日利亚剧作家Wole Soyinka在内的作家在美国学术界占有一席之地，后者于1986年获得了诺贝尔文学奖。 拉尔森博士在诸如《非洲小说的出现》（1972年）和《非洲作家的折磨》（2001年）以及他编辑的开创性选集（其中包括《非洲短篇小说》（ 1970年）和“当代非洲的不透明阴影和其他故事”（1975年）。 By his own account, Charles R. Larson knew almost nothing of Africa — not even where Nigeria was located — when he arrived in the West African nation in 1962 with one of the first cohorts of Peace Corps volunteers. What little knowledge he had came from two books by Nigerian writers that he read in preparation for his experience, Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” and “The Palm-Wine Drinkard” by Amos Tutuola. A budding literary scholar, Dr. Larson planned, upon completion of his Peace Corps service, to pursue a doctorate in American literature. But “Nigeria totally altered my worldview, mostly by showing me the failure of my earlier education,” he later recalled. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/charles-larson-dead-/2021/05/25/98f3a5e4-bd6b-11eb-83e3-0ca705a96ba4_story.html
拉尔森博士在诸如《非洲小说的出现》（1972年）和《非洲作家的折磨》（2001年）以及他编辑的开创性选集（其中包括《非洲短篇小说》（ 1970年）和“当代非洲的不透明阴影和其他故事”（1975年）。
By his own account, Charles R. Larson knew almost nothing of Africa — not even where Nigeria was located — when he arrived in the West African nation in 1962 with one of the first cohorts of Peace Corps volunteers. What little knowledge he had came from two books by Nigerian writers that he read in preparation for his experience, Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” and “The Palm-Wine Drinkard” by Amos Tutuola.
A budding literary scholar, Dr. Larson planned, upon completion of his Peace Corps service, to pursue a doctorate in American literature. But “Nigeria totally altered my worldview, mostly by showing me the failure of my earlier education,” he later recalled.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/charles-larson-dead-/2021/05/25/98f3a5e4-bd6b-11eb-83e3-0ca705a96ba4_story.html