Kal Penn Goes to UPenn To Edumacate Students
March 29th, 2007 by dd
Kal Penn will teach two classes as a “guess professor” at the University of Pennsylvania in Spring ‘08. The actor will instruct two courses within the college’s Asian American studies program: “Images of Asian Americans in the Media,” and “Contemporary American Teen Films.”
The New Jersey native is currently commanding big screens in the excellent, not-to-be-missed film The Namesake - an adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s eponymous novel - but Penn is most famous for his role as “Kumar” in 2004’s racial identity-and-roach-clips hit Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. Penn recently filmed Kumar 2, while simultaneously pursuing a graduate certificate in international security at Stanford. He received his undergraduate degree in sociology with a specialization in theater, film and television, at UCLA. [VIBE]
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