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Michael Shea<\/p><\/div>\n

OXFORD, Miss \u2013 Both a poet and a scholar, Michael Shea earned a Master of Fine Arts in May from the University of Mississippi. Now he is headed to Argentina as a 2014 Fulbright U.S. Student Award<\/a> winner, the university’s second Fulbright Scholar of the year.<\/p>\n

Shea will participate in the English Teaching Assistant<\/a> program, which places Fulbright recipients in classrooms abroad to provide assistance to the local English teachers. ETAs help teach English language while serving as cultural ambassadors for the United States.<\/p>\n

A native of Clearwater, Florida, Shea is interested in the connections between\u00a0Argentina and American literature and culture<\/p>\n

“As a student of Spanish, it\u00a0was the ability to contextualize my language skills through literature that\u00a0allowed me to fully understand my new tongue,” Shea said.<\/p>\n

With an English teaching assistantship to Argentina beginning in March 2015, Shea plans to establish a community poetry workshop where students will read\u00a0poems by American poets and attempt to write their own works in English to encourage cross-cultural awareness and language\u00a0acquisition.<\/p>\n

“I hope to offer my students a\u00a0similar experience by teaching English through poetry, while also fostering\u00a0greater understanding between the two nations on a grass-roots level,” he said.<\/p>\n

Shea also wants to establish a virtual reading series in which American\u00a0poets will be invited to read their work via video chat programs to a live\u00a0Argentine audience (and vice versa), creating an international dialogue.<\/p>\n

This opportunity “will allow me to lay a strong foundation for future studies in global literature and translation,” Shea said.<\/p>\n

“As a graduate student in our Master of Fine Arts program, Michael Shea has demonstrated a high level of talent, creativity and dedication,” said Derrick Harriell, assistant professor of English<\/a> and African-American Studies<\/a>. “He’s been a model for our program and is extremely deserving of this distinguished honor.”<\/p>\n

At UM, Shea was the senior editor of Yalobusha Review<\/a>, the university’s literary journal, while coordinating the monthly Trobar Ric Reading Series.<\/p>\n

In Argentina, Shea plans to seek out contemporary Argentine poets and translate their work into English, a project that will continue with the eventual goal of publication upon his return to the U.S. He also\u00a0plans to pursue a doctorate in comparative literature, with a specialization in Pan-American poetics. Shea’s\u00a0parents are Michael and Annie Shea of Clearwater.<\/p>\n

“We are proud of Michael’s award and his vision and poetic sensibilities,” said Douglass Sullivan-Gonzales, dean of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College<\/a>. “We hope that his sojourn in Argentina enables him to understand the depth of dilemmas facing humanity and that he retraces successfully the paths that the great Argentinian poets have trod.”<\/p>\n

Shea is the university’s 14th\u00a0<\/span>Fulbright U.S. Student Award winner since 2000. Katie Shuford also won a Fulbright to Hungary this year. Last year, Ryan Ezelle won a Fulbright to serve as an English Teaching Assistant in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n

Established in 1946, the Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The primary source of funding for the Fulbright Program is an annual appropriation made by the U.S. Congress to the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Recipients of Fulbright grants are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields.<\/p>\n

Students interested in applying for the Fulbright U.S. Student Award are encouraged to contact Debra Young of the Office of National Scholarship Advisement at onsa@olemiss.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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