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Portland State University professor wins Fulbright Scholar grant | OregonLive.com

Portland State University professor wins Fulbright Scholar grant

By Bill Graves, The Oregonian

April 08, 2010, 6:06PM

Fulbright U.S. Scholar ProgramPortland State University Professor Andrew Giarelli has won his second Fulbright Scholar grant.
Andrew Giarelli, professor of university studies at Portland State University, has won a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture in the Slovak Republic next year, the U.S. State Department announced this week.

Giarelli, who also won a Fulbright senior lecturing award in 1993 to teach in Malta, will teach American literature and American studies at Comenius University, the Slovak Republic's largest and oldest university in its capital, Bratislava. He will be among 1,100 U.S. faculty and professionals working abroad next year under the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.

Giarelli taught English at Portland State from 1996 to 2006, founded its