As Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Humanities and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna, Dr. Hargrove will teach three courses at the upper undergraduate and graduate levels. The courses she offered to teach include American Literature of the 1920s, T.S.Eliot and Sylvia Plath, 20th Century Southern Literature, and 20th Century American Drama.
    Dr. Hargrove will be in Vienna from October 2005 to January 2006. Before taking up residence in Vienna, she plans to spend some time in September in Paris doing the final research for her book on Eliot and Paris. More information

Professor Noel Polk, English
Named Fulbright Senior Scholar at the
University of Lodz, Poland

  Professor Polk, Editor of the Mississippi Quarterly, and member of the Department of English, will be in Poland for most of May and into the first week in June.
   Dr. Polk specializes in American fiction and has published and lectured widely in this country, Europe, Japan, and the former Soviet Union on William Faulkner and Eudora Welty. Recent books include Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner (1996); Eudora Welty: A Bibliography of Her Work (1993); and Outside the Southern Myth (1997).