You’re Sort of a Missionary, Right? – Bill Issel – UK 1978, Hungary 2008, Romania 2018
I’ll call him “Mr. Smith.” I meet him one afternoon on the Charles Bridge in Prague. I’m there to lecture on race, class, and politics in American history. It’s 1978 and I’m doing my first Fulbright at the American Studies Centre in London. I help get the Centre started, working with my English colleague Chris […]
Directions from World: Famous Comparatist on Spending Year in London – Theodore J St Antoine – England 1957
Because I received a Fulbright grant to study law and economics at the London School of Economics, I was released early from my service as a U.S. Army lawyer. I was still very much under the influence of military discipline, however, when I first went to see my faculty advisor at LSE, he was Otto […]
My Year as a Fulbright-Hays Professor At Keele University – Dwight Peltzer – The United Kingdom 1978
My year spent as a Fulbright-Hays visiting professor at Keele University in Staffordshire, England, was exciting because of Keele’s unique American studies program. I was delighted to share my expertise as an American music specialist with their doctoral students. With emphasis placed on research in American contemporary composers, I taught a harmonic analysis course on […]
A Party – Ray Marik – England 1974
In fall of 1974 I am off to England with my family to spend the year as part of the Fulbright Exchange appointment to teach in a southern England comprehensive school. (I still correspond with friends met there nearly half a century ago.) On weekends we have a wonderful time visiting castles, cathedrals, and on […]
Mutual Understanding via Drama – Ronald Emmons – United Kingdom 1996-1997
While teaching English at Southend High School for Girls, I volunteered to work with interested students on developing a theatre piece combining monologues discussing teenage life that had been written by some of my US students with their own views of growing up in the UK. The teaching schedule in an English secondary school restricted times […]
“Our Town” to Basingtoke – Joanne Louise Hjort – United Kingdom 1982
Upon boarding my flight to London on January 2, 1982, I realized that for the next four months, every person I was about to meet would be new. I taught Drama at Bothell High School, in a suburb of Seattle, WA and my counterpart was the Drama teacher at Bishop Challoner Secondary Modern School in […]
Gennady Filimonov – England 1986
My Fulbright journey began in the summer of 1985, a year before I received my grant, when I was a scholarship student at Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau where I met the eminent Prof. Neaman. He was an enormous inspiration. The summer experience of private lessons, solo performances as well as chamber music performances with great […]