UMA professor to teach in Slovenia as Fulbright scholar

BY MATTHEW STONE
Staff Writer

AUGUSTA -- Lisa Botshon is curious to see what her academic field looks like overseas.

An English professor at the University of Maine at Augusta, Botshon learned this week she'll get a chance to see how American Studies are taught at a university in Slovenia.

In fact, she'll be doing the teaching.

Botshon is the latest UMA professor to be selected as a Fulbright scholar. The program, funded through the U.S. Department of State, will allow Botshon to spend an academic year teaching at the University of Ljubljana, a research institution with more than 60,000 students.

"I'm particularly interested to experience the kind of classrooms they put together, which will hopefully make some impression on my own teaching at home," Botshon said Friday. "That's one of my priorities."

She starts teaching in October and will stay through June 2010.

Botshon, her husband and their 4-year-old son, who live in Brunswick, will move abroad for the year.

"We're hoping he can be our translator," Botshon joked about her son, Sam.

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