The College welcomes first visiting Fulbright professor

The Fulbright-Scotland Visiting Professorship

As the Fulbright programme expands in Scotland, the University of Edinburgh will be opening its doors for the first time to a Visiting Professor.

The Fulbright-Scotland Visiting Professorship scheme will see the College of Humanities and Social Science hosting three distinguished US academics, for six months each, over a three year period beginning in 2011.

The guest professors are chosen by the Fulbright Commission and will contribute to the intellectual life of the University of Edinburgh through teaching, giving public lectures and conducting research, in any discipline within the College.

Professor Marianne Boruch

Professor Marianne Boruch will be the College's first Visiting Professor, joining the University from January to June 2012.

Professor Boruch currently teaches at Purdue University where she developed and directed the MFA (Master of Fine Arts) programme, and at the low-residency Programme for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

Her books of poetry include the recent 'The Book of Hours' and 'Grace, Fallen from', two essay collections, 'Poetry's Old Air' and 'In the Blue Pharmacy', and a memoir, 'The Glimpse Traveler'. She's held Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, been a resident at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center and an artist-in-residence at Isle Royale, America's most isolated National Park.

As a Fulbright Scholar within the College, she will be teaching and working on her 8th poetry collection, 'Cadaver, Speak'.

The Fulbright Commission

The Fulbright Commission's programme of international exchange grants is one of the world’s best known and most prestigious awards programmes. Its Distinguished Chairs Programme - of which the Fulbright-Scotland Visiting Professorship is a part - is viewed as one of the most prestigious academic appointments made by Fulbright.

Fulbright remains the only organisation offering scholarships for study or research in any field, at any accredited US or UK university, and 2011 sees the greatest number of exchanges between Scotland and the USA to date.