Two semesters as a Fulbright Scholar affiliated with the Department of Taiwanese Literature at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Tainan, Taiwan, passed
I arrived in Taiwan searching for a general answer as to why Taiwanese students excel at math in ways that American students often do not. Ever since I began teaching
The Fulbright grant has made possible a year of living in Taipei for myself and for my family of three. This has been an enormously rewarding year, despite some
Working on my research project in Taiwan as a Fulbright Senior Scholar has been an amazing experience. I want to thank several people who made my time here so
When we teach, we are also learning. This axiom is almost a cliché in higher education, yet it becomes newly real when one is removed from familiar routines and asked to teach in a different linguistic,
I arrived in Taipei in early September 2025 as a Fulbright Senior Scholar, returning to Taiwan for the first time since a brief visit in 2010 as part of an academic delegation. Well before 2010, I lived in Taipei as a graduate student in the early 1990s,
When I first received the notification that I had been awarded the Fulbright Senior Scholar award, my initial reaction was excitement and joy. There was the undeniable thrill of professional validation, certainly,
Reflecting on my Fulbright experience as a senior teaching scholar in Taiwan I feel a deep sense of gratitude. I am grateful for the opportunity to advance and contribute meaningfully to my professional mission.
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I arrived in Taiwan. Aside from a few short visits in the past, I knew little about the pragmatics of everyday life here. Taiwan was also a new field site for me, where I was beginning a (relatively) new research project on care and breast cancer.
“Good morning, misty mountains!” exclaimed my 5-year-old son as we walked to his kindergarten soon after our arrival in Hualien. Since then, that greeting has become part of our morning ritual. His middle name,
