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5/15/06

SLU PROF GETS FULBRIGHT AWARD

CANTON - St. Lawrence University Visiting Assistant Professor of English Trimiko C. Melancon has been named a Fulbright Scholar of American Literature and American Studies.

She will spend the 2006-2007 academic year in Berlin, Germany, at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität (Free University), teaching and conducting research.

Melancon will teach courses in African American and American literary and cultural studies generally, as well as critical race feminist studies specifically. She states, "My research examines the extent to which African American and black German identities are represented and constructed in Germany, as well as how such constructions are imbued with other meanings when constituted by differences in gender, sexuality, class, and nation. As such, my research contributes to and expands current discourses on 'blackness,' representation, positionality and (African) 'diaspora' within European and larger global contexts."

A graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana, Melancon earned a master's degree and the Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her dissertation research was facilitated by the awarding of two Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Travel and Research grants; she was also named a Frederick Douglass Teaching Scholar at Indiana University of Indiana.

The flagship international educational program sponsored by the United States government, the Fulbright Program is designed to "increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries." With this goal, the Fulbright Program has provided approximately 275,000 participants - chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential - with the opportunity to observe each others' political, economic, educational and cultural institutions, to exchange ideas and to embark on joint ventures of importance to the general welfare of the world's inhabitants. The Fulbright Program provides grants for graduate students, scholars, professionals, teachers and administrators from the U.S. and other countries.

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