Drake students, professor receive Fulbright awards

Two Drake University students have been offered Fulbright Scholarships for 2016-2017. Seniors Emily Enquist and Taylor Donaldson will join a long list of Drake graduates who have received Fulbright Scholarships in recent years. Enquist will teach English in Bulgaria and Donaldson will teach English in Morocco. You can learn more about these remarkable seniors in the Drake Newsroom.

In addition, Elizabeth Robertson, associate professor of English at Drake University, was selected as the recipient of a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant. She will be teaching in Burkina Faso at the Universite de Ouagadougou in the capital city of Ouagadougou during the 2016–2017 academic year.

Robertson will teach a range of courses in Anglophone literature, including 19th-20th century British literature, American literature from the origin to the 19th century, great figures in American literature, and literary theory and criticism. She also plans to work with graduate students on their master’s degree theses at the university. Read more in the Drake Newsroom.