Eireene Nealand, Fulbright Student Researcher, Sofia University, AY 2015-2016
Eireene Nealand, together with her translation partner Daniela Hurezanu, have published an excerpt of a translation of Marguerite Duras’ Le Camion in the London Journal Index on Censorship. Bulgarian author Blagovesta Pugyova’s poem in translation, “Octopus,” was...
Steven G. Kellman, Fulbright Scholar, Sofia University, AY 2000-2001
Steven G. Kellman published two books within the past year: The Restless Ilan Stavans: Outsider on the Inside (University of Pittsburgh Press) American Suite (Finishing Line Press) Steven G. Kellman is professor of comparative literature at the University of Texas at...
Keana Mirmajlesi, Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Varna, AY 2018-2019
Keana Mirmajlesi had her undergraduate biomedical engineering research published this past year in an article titled “Free radical-mediated targeting and immobilization of coupled payloads” in the Journal of Drug Targeting. Keana was a member of the Shreiber Lab as an...
Priscilla Howe, Fulbright Scholar, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, AY 2014-2015
Photo credit: Tony Peterson Priscilla Howe’s book, Clever, Kind, Tricky, and Sly: A Bulgarian Folktale Sampler is a winner of the Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award, presented in October 2024. Here is what the committee says about the award: This award seeks to...
David Jenkins, Fulbright Scholar, University of Plovdiv, AY 1994-1995; Veliko Tarnovo University, AY 1997-1998
Dr. David Jenkins had a collection of his English translations of contemporary Bulgarian prose published by Plovdiv University Press in 2019. Interim Report of the Bulgarian Society for the Diffusion of Useful Ignorance introduces the wit, wisdom, and weirdness of six...
Dan Fellner, Fulbright Scholar, American University in Bulgaria, AY 2014 – 2015
Dan Fellner was named a Fulbright Specialist to the Republic of North Macedonia in 2019 and taught intercultural communications at the country’s largest university, Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. He was also a guest-lecturer at two other...
Shawn Ross, Fulbright Scholar, American University in Bulgaria, AY 2005-2006
Dr. Shawn Ross, together with colleagues who worked with him during his time in Bulgaria, recently published a book about their joint Tundzha Regional Archaeological Project (TRAP). The project was a collaborative, multidisciplinary project involving researchers,...
EducationUSA Success Story: My Path to MIT
Iliyas Bashir Noman Sofia High School of Mathematics ‘23 EducationUSA Opportunity Funds-Bulgaria Grant Recipient MIT, MA ‘27 My name is Iliyas, and I am a senior at Sofia High School of Mathematics in Sofia, Bulgaria. My passion for mathematics led me to apply to...