Fulbright Scholar Program
2006 - 2007 Visiting Scholar Directory
Language and Literature (non-U.S.) Back
Abdul Manaf, Nor Faridah
Associate Professor, English Language and Literature Department, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Research: Bridging Differences: A Comparative Study on American Muslim and Malaysian Muslim Poets
Cornell University, Department of Anthropology, Ithaca, NY, c/o Dr. Andrew Willford
March 2007 - May 2007

Abou El Nagah, Hadeer
Lecturer, Al Alsun Department, Faculty of Mass Communications, Misr International University, Cairo, Egypt
Lecturing and Research: Self Identification in Arab American Women's Poetry
SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology--Cobleskill, Department of Humanities, Communications and Graphic Design, Cobleskill, NY, c/o Dr. Susan J. Zimmermann
August 2006 - January 2007

Alcazar Bravo, Jorge
Associate Professor, School of Philosophy and Literature, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Research: Menippean Satire and the Development of the Novel Form
Barnard College, Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures, New York, NY, c/o Dr. Michael Schuessler
August 2006 - October 2006

Bahloul, Mongi
Assistant Professor, English Department, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
Lecturing: Access to the North African World: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
University of North Alabama, Department of Academic Affairs, Florence, AL, c/o Dr. John F. Wakefield
August 2006 - June 2007
(Scholar-in-Residence Program)

Bar Itzhak, Haya
Professor and Head, Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Lecturing: Jewish Folklore Studies
Penn State Harrisburg, School of Humanities, Department of American Studies, Middletown, PA, c/o Dr. Charles Kupfer
January 2007 - December 2007
(Scholar-in-Residence Program)

Dasgupta, Sanjukta
Professor, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India
Lecturing: Representation of American and Indian Women in Literature and Film
Suny - College at Oswego, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History, Oswego, NY, c/o Dr. Geraldine Forbes
August 2006 - December 2006
(Scholar-in-Residence Program)

Demir, Yavuz
Professor, Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey
Lecturing: Introduction to Literary Analysis and Critical Theory
Alma College, Office of the Provost, Alma, MI, c/o Dr. John Ottenhoff
August 2006 - June 2007
(Scholar-in-Residence Program)

Deprez, Berengere
Counselor, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
Research: Marguerite Yourcenar and the United States: An Intellectual Relationship
Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Cambridge, MA, c/o Dr. Christie McDonald
January 2007 - December 2007

Dobozy, Tamas
Assistant Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
Lecturing and Research: Bartok in New York: The Writing of Immigration and Transnationalism
New York University, Department of English, Creative Writing Program, New York, NY, c/o Dr. Russell Carmony
January 2007 - June 2007

Elvir Lazo, Lety
Assistant Professor, National Autonomous University, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Lecturing: Strategies for Teaching Graduate-Level Literature and Linguistics Courses
Delaware State University, Department of English and Foreign Languages, Dover, DE, c/o Dr. Richard McCallister
August 2006 - May 2007
(Scholar-in-Residence Program)

Gomes, Angela
Associate Professor, Department of Classic Literature and Language, Institute of Literature, Federal University of Fluminense, Niteroi, Brazil
Lecturing and Research: Beyond Political Correctness: Academic Response to Contemporary American Fiction on Violence
Brown University, Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Providence, RI, c/o Dr. Luiz Fernando Valente
January 2007 - May 2007

Hiranyatheb, Thanomnual
Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Research: Toward a Cross Cultural Perspective in Disability Studies: Assessing the Applicability of Western Theories and Criticisms of Disability Studies to the Analysis of Modern Thai Narratives
Hofstra University, Department of English, Hempstead, NY, c/o Dr. G. Thomas Couser
September 2006 - February 2007

Ibrahimovic, Nedzad
Lecturer, Department of Literature and Languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, University of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Lecturing: Culture and Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Context of the Balkans
University of Washington, College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Seattle, WA, c/o Dr. Galya Diment
October 2006 - June 2007

Khalifa, Rached
Senior Lecturer and Head, Department of English, Higher Institute of Human Sciences, Tunis, Tunisia
Research: "We Were the Last Romantics": Affirmation of Poetic Nobility in Wallace Stevens and W.B. Yeats
Brown University, Department of English, Providence, RI, c/o Dr. Kevin McLaughlin
February 2007 - April 2007

La Porta, Filippo Alfonso
Writer and Literary Critic, Rome, Italy
Research: Comparing Modernities: Italy and the United States
Fordham University--Rose Hill Campus, Department of Modern Languages and Literature, Bronx, NY, c/o Dr. Joseph Perricone
March 2007 - August 2007

Lewis, Desiree
Lecturer, Women's and Gender Studies Programme, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa
Lecturing: Gender in South Africa
Georgia State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Atlanta, GA, c/o Dr. Renee Shatteman
January 2007 - May 2007
(Scholar-in-Residence Program)

Liu, Ning
Associate Professor, College of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Research: Transitions in the Prose Style and the Ritual Practice in Tang-Sung China
Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Cambridge, MA, c/o Dr. Peter Bol
September 2006 - September 2007

Luo, Xuanmin
Professor, Center for Translation and Interdisciplinary Studies, Department of Foreign Languages, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Research: Shaping Chinese Modernity Through Translation: Case Studies in the Late 19th and the Early 20th Centuries
University of California--Los Angeles, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Los Angeles, CA, c/o Dr. Michael Heim
October 2006 - August 2007

Maglia de Ferrari, Graciela
Professor, Department of Literature, Javeriana University, Bogota, Colombia
Lecturing: Colombian, Afro Colombian and Hispanic Caribbean Literatures and Cultures
Holyoke Community College, Department of Social Science, Holyoke, MA, c/o Dr. Kate Douglas
August 2006 - June 2007
(Scholar-in-Residence Program)

Minenok, Elena
Senior Researcher, Department of Folklore, Institute of World Literature, Moscow, Russia
Lecturing: Russian Folk Culture as a Reflection of Traditional Mentality
University of Kentucky, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Lexington, KY, c/o Dr. Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby
January 2007 - July 2007

Murray, Laura
Associate Professor, Department of English, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Lecturing and Research: Copyright and the Common Good: A Comparative Study
New York University, Institute for Law and Society, New York, NY, c/o Dr. Lewis Kornhauser
January 2007 - May 2007

Ohlsson, Anders Lennart
Professor, Center for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Lecturing and Research: Contemporary Sweden in the Novels and Films of Henning Mankell
University of Massachusetts--Amherst, Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, Amherst, MA, c/o Dr. James Cathey
January 2007 - June 2007

Peng, Hsiao-yen
Researcher, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Research: Dandyism and Border Crossing: Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Neo-Sensationalism
Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Cambridge, MA, c/o Dr. Michael Puett
January 2007 - July 2007

Ringgaard, Dan
Associate Professor, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Lecturing and Research: The Theory of Place
University of California--Berkeley, Department of Scandinavian, Berkeley, CA, c/o Dr. Karin Sanders
January 2007 - May 2007

Shestopalova, Tetiana
Lecturer, Department of Ukrainian Philology, Luhansk Taras Shevchenko State Pedagogical University, Luhansk, Ukraine
Research: Ukrainian Literature Process in the Scientific Critical Inheritance of Yuriy Lavrinenko
Columbia University, Department of Slavic Languages, New York, NY, c/o Dr. Yuri Shevchuk
September 2006 - March 2007

Simonetti, Gianluigi
Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Cultures, Faculty of Humanities, University of Aquila, Aquila, Italy
Lecturing: Italian Modern Poetry: From Leopardi to Montale
University of Chicago, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Chicago, IL, c/o Dr. Justin Steinberg
March 2007 - June 2007

Sobieska, Anna
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Literary Research, Warsaw, Poland
Research: The Russian Revolution of 1905-1907 in the Literature of the Second Generation of Russian Symbolists
University of Washington, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Seattle, WA, c/o Prof. James West
April 2007 - June 2007

Stroe, Stefan
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Research: Paradigm Shifts in Literature and Science From the Romantic to the Postmodern Age
Yale University, Department of English, New Haven, CT, c/o Dr. Paul Fry
January 2007 - July 2007

Szurawitzki, Michael
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of German Studies, Abo Academy University, Abo, Finland
Research: A Contrastive and Diachronic Study of Article Introductions From 1897 to 2003: Machiavelli in Germany From Gryphius to Schiller
University of California--Irvine, Department of Comparative Literature, Irvine, CA, c/o Prof. Jane Newman
December 2006 - April 2007

Ustyuzhyn, Igor
Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Research: Maximilian Voloshin and the "Damned Questions" of the Fin de Siecle
University of California--Berkeley, Department of Art History, Berkeley, CA, c/o Dr. Whitney Davis
March 2007 - December 2007

Vales, Miroslav
Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Technical University of Liberec, Liberec, Czech Republic
Research: The Influence of Language Policy on Language Maintenance: Evaluation of Lakota Revitalization Programs in Pine Ridge, South Dakota
University of Colorado--Boulder, Department of Linguistics, Boulder, CO, c/o Dr. David Rood
January 2007 - August 2007

Vinogradova, Ekaterina
Senior Teacher, Historical-Philological Department, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia
Lecturing: Shakespeare in the 19th-Century Russian Culture and in the Works of Anton Chekhov
SUNY--University at Albany, Slavic and Eurasian Studies Program, Department of Language, Literatures and Cultures, Albany, NY, c/o Prof. Henryk Baran
August 2006 - December 2006

Wickramagamage, Carmen
Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka
Research: Multicultural America: A Project in Translation
College of the Holy Cross, Department of Theater, Worcester, MA, c/o Prof. Lynn Kremer
September 2006 - May 2007

Zha, Mingjian
Associate Professor, Institute of Language and Literature Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China
Research: The Study and Translation of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature in the United States: A Critical Survey
Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Cambridge, MA, c/o Dr. David Wang
September 2006 - September 2007

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