LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Anthony J. O'Keeffe, professor in the Department of English at Bellarmine University, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at the University of the West Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania February through July of this year.
O'Keeffe will lecture on American Literature: Identity, Self and Culture.
O'Keeffe is one of approximately 1,100 U.S. faculty and professionals selected to travel abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program this year.
The Fulbright Program, America's flagship international educational exchange program, is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Legislation introduced by the late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas established the program in 1946. The Fulbright Program has provided approximately 286,500 people -- 108,160 Americans who have studied, taught or researched abroad and 178,340 students, scholars and teachers from other countries who have engaged in similar activities in the United States -- with the opportunity to observe each others' political, economic, educational and cultural institutions. The program operates in more than 155 countries worldwide.
For more information about the Fulbright Program or the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, please visit:
http://fulbright.state.gov
Bellarmine University is an independent Catholic university offering more than 50 majors, as well as graduate degree programs and a doctor of physical therapy. Forbes magazine and the Princeton Review rank Bellarmine among America’s best colleges, and U.S. News and World Report consistently ranks Bellarmine as a top tier university.
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