Stifler receives Fulbright to teach in Sri Lanka
John Stifler, a senior lecturer in the Economics Department, has received a Fulbright scholar’s grant to teach for nine months at the University of Peredinya in Kandy, Sri Lanka.
He will arrive in Sri Lanka in late December after traveling to India to teach during the upcoming fall semester in Chennai, formerly Madras.
In Sri Lanka, Stifler will teach an American studies course that focuses on American literary works by authors such as Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston, and how they illuminate social and economic traditions and differences. He also expects to teach a literary journalism course, developing Sri Lankan university students’ skills in essay, personal narrative and political analysis.
July 17, 2008.
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