Joseph Comprone, English professor, University of Connecticut at Avery Point, is awarded a Fulbright Scholar Grant and will be teaching American literature next year in Singapore.
Joseph Comprone, a professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Avery Point, is awarded a Fulbright Scholar Grant for the 2010-2011 academic year. Joseph will spend the coming year in Singapore, teaching American literature and carrying out research into the reading processes of Singaporeans.
Joseph will be in residence during his year abroad at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The themes in the readings, which focus on such characteristic topics as the “American Dream,” may resonate differently with people of other cultures, Joseph says.
“Singaporeans live in a traditional culture that’s mainly about family,” he says. “I’m interested in how they respond to different cultural issues, like characters that are flawed but are also viewed as heroes.”
Works such as Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy will be the cornerstone of Joseph’s research. These studies will create a body of research that he will use in a book on cross-cultural reading studies.
Posted on July 21st, 2010 | category: Achievers
