Fulbright Scholar Program
2006 - 2007 Visiting Scholar Directory
American Literature Back
Balditsyn, Pavel
Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Journalism and Literature, Faculty of Journalism, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Research: Mark Twain's Autobiography and the Modern Conception of the Genre
University of California--Berkeley, Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Berkeley, CA, c/o Dr. Barbara Voytek
January 2007 - July 2007

Dumbrava, Gabriela
Lecturer, Department of Languages, University of Petrosani, Petrosani, Romania
Research: The Short Story of Postmodern South
University of Mississippi, Department of English, University, MS, c/o Dr. Joseph Urgo
September 2006 - December 2006

El Khouly, Nadia
Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
Lecturing: The Construction and Projection of the Self in Contemporary Immigrant Women's Autobiographies
Virginia Commonwealth University, College of Humanities and Sciences, School of World Studies, Richmond, VA, c/o Dr. R. McKenna Brown
January 2007 - May 2007
(Scholar-in-Residence Program)

Gafarova, Sahiba
Vice Rector, Department of European Languages, Baku Slavic University, Baku, Azerbaijan
Research: Gender in American Literature for 20th-Century Women Writers
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Ann Arbor, MI, c/o Ms. Janet Malley
September 2006 - January 2007

Hurm, Gerhard
Professor, Trier Center for American Studies, University of Trier, Trier, Germany
Lecturing: American Literature and American Studies
Portland State University, Department of English, Portland, OR, c/o Dr. Tracy Dillon
August 2006 - August 2007

Kayano, Yoshiko
Associate Professor, Department of International Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Meisei University--Hino, Tokyo, Japan
Research: Exploring an Interface Between Literature and the Grassroots Environmental Justice Movement in the American Southwest
University of New Mexico--Albuquerque, Department of Communication and Journalism, Albuquerque, NM, c/o Dr. John C. Condon
September 2006 - August 2007

Kumar, Nita Nagpal
Reader, Department of English, Shyama Prasad Mukherji College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Research: Black Surrealism: African American Women Playwrights and Anti-Realistic Dramatic Form
Yale University, Departments of English, Theater Studies and African American Studies, New Haven, CT, c/o Dr. David Krasner
September 2006 - April 2007

L'vova, Irina
Docent, Department of Philology, Petrozavodsk State University, Petrozavodsk, Russia
Research: F.M. Dostojevsky in Beat Culture
Georgetown University, Department of Slavic Languages, Washington, DC, c/o Dr. Olga Meerson
September 2006 - March 2007

Lee, Young Oak
Professor, Department of English, Sung Kyun Kwan University, Seoul, Korea
Research: Positioning Asian American Subjectivity in American Literature: A Reading of "Native Speaker"
University of California--Berkeley, Department of Ethnic Studies, Berkeley, CA, c/o Dr. Sau-ling Wong
December 2006 - August 2007

Nakai, Asako
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Language and Society, Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Japan
Research: Migration and Hybridization: The Construction of Cultural Identity in South Asian Diaspora Literature in the United States
University of California--Berkeley, Department of Ethnic Studies, Berkeley, CA, c/o Dr. Elaine H. Kim
August 2006 - August 2007

Paryz, Marek
Assistant Professor, American Literature Department, English Institute, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Research: Representations of Post-Colonial and Imperial Experience in the Discourse of American Transcendentalism
University of Illinois--Chicago, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of English, Chicago, IL, c/o Prof. Terence Whalen
February 2007 - May 2007

Sapozhnikova, Yulia
Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Smolensk State Pedagogical University, Smolensk, Russia
Research: The Worldview Revealing as a Basic Component of Art Interpretation
Harvard University, Department of English and American Literature and Language, Cambridge, MA, c/o Dr. James Engell
September 2006 - March 2007

Sengupta, Ashis
Reader, Department of English, North Bengal University, Darjeeling, India
Lecturing: Reading India and America Through Contemporary Indian and American Drama: Power, Culture Clash, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality
Rhode Island College, Department of English, Providence, RI, c/o Dr. Joan Dagle
August 2006 - December 2006

Sivaramakrishnan, Murali
Associate Professor, Department of English, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India
Lecturing and Research: Literature, Art and the Environment: An Indian Approach to Ecocritical Theories
University of Nevada--Reno, Department of English, Reno, NV, c/o Prof. Scott Slovic
November 2006 - December 2006

Villareal, Corazon
Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines--Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
Research: Voices From Islamic Women in American Literature
Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, New York, NY, c/o Prof. Muhsin Al-Musawi
August 2006 - November 2006

Williams, Nerys
Lecturer, Department of English, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Research: The Collaborative Impulse in Lyn Hejinian's Poetry
University of California--Berkeley, Department of English, Berkeley, CA, c/o Prof. Charles Altieri
January 2007 - June 2007

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