Join us for a panel discussion on the Fulbright Visiting Scholars Program, featuring two current scholars speaking on their experience in Massachusetts as well as their current research exploring the contributions of New England trailblazers Frederick Law Olmsted and Emily Dickinson.

Dr. Hayriye Esbah-Tuncay is a Professor of Landscape Architecture at Istanbul Technical University and Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She is Founding Director of HET (Habitat-Ecology-Technology), an Istanbul based, award-winning, landscape architecture, and urban design firm. Esbah-Tuncay received her Doctoral degree in Environmental Design and Planning from Arizona State University and her Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Arizona. She is a registered Landscape Architect in the Turkish Landscape Architects Association and a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Dr. Mousumi G. Banerjee teaches in the Department of English Literature at The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), in its Shillong Campus, in India. She researches in philosophy and women’s writing, and the voices of women poets from those intellectual edges, that have hitherto been identified as the “margins” of literary writing. Besides literature, she is a passionate teacher in contemporary theory, too, and a singer and music enthusiast, who loves to engage in deliberations on other humanistic discourses, in general, and on Emily Dickinson, in particular! She has authored books, namely Writings across Genres: Indian Literature, Language and Culture (2015), Daring to Write: The Two Creative Daughters of Victorian England (2015), and Emily Dickinson: Writing as a Woman (2017), and currently has two on-going book-length projects: one on Gitanjali: An Exalted Manifestation of Buddhist Aesthetics (a research as a current Associate of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study [IIAS], Shimla, India), and the other on “A thought went up my mind today –”: An Inquiry into a Post-Kantian Transcendental Philosophy in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry. She has been awarded with the Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2019-2020, by the United States-India Education Foundation (USIEF), to pursue her postdoctoral research, and presently she is associated with Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., for her work on the book on Dickinson.

Jim Moore served as a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State for over 30 years. During his career as a diplomat, he was posted to American embassies and consulates in nine countries. In his most recent positions, Jim served as Chief of Mission to the Dutch Caribbean, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy in South and Central Asia, and Deputy Chief of Mission to Sri Lanka. Throughout his Foreign Service career, Jim was committed to building ties between the people of the United States and the people of other nations. He is passionate about the value international education exchange. In Turkey, he was chairman of the U.S.-Turkey Fulbright Commission. He also served on the boards of the Fulbright Commissions of Argentina, Ecuador, and Sri Lanka. Jim currently works with WorldBoston as coordinator of the enrichment program for Fulbright Visiting Scholars from other countries who are based in the Greater Boston area. The Fulbright enrichment program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Cultural and Educational Affairs and administered by the Institute of International Education.