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As an associate writing professor, Jessica McCaughey \u201901 helps undergraduate students process through prose their study abroad experiences to Portugal, Australia, Taiwan and other countries across the globe.<\/p>\n

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Jessica McCaughey ’01 earned a bachelor’s degree in English at Mary Washington. Now an associate professor of writing at The George Washington University, she received a Fulbright Scholar Award to teach and develop a professional writing archive at Queen’s University in Belfast. Photo courtesy of Jessica McCaughey\/The George Washington University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t have a chance to study abroad in college, so I live vicariously through their adventures,\u201d said McCaughey, who was a first-generation student while earning a bachelor\u2019s degree in English from the University of Mary Washington.<\/p>\n

Now, she\u2019s experiencing an overseas opportunity of her own. After receiving a prestigious Fulbright Scholar Award<\/a>, McCaughey moved her family to Northern Ireland in January, where she\u2019ll spend six months teaching creative nonfiction at Queen\u2019s University in Belfast while developing a professional writing archive.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s among the dozens of Mary Washington alumni who\u2019ve earned the U.S. government-sponsored grant through the Fulbright Program, one of the world\u2019s most competitive international exchange initiatives. Roughly 30 recipients \u2013 including Sofia Taylor \u201924<\/a>, currently conducting psychology research in Germany \u2013 and nearly 40 semifinalists have come from UMW, reflecting the University\u2019s growing reputation for Fulbright achievement.<\/p>\n

\u201cJessica is an outstanding example of lifelong learning, and where a Mary Washington degree can lead,\u201d said Professor of Middle Eastern History Nabil Al-Tikriti, who serves as UMW\u2019s Fulbright program co-advisor with Professor and Chair of Biological Sciences Dianne Baker. The University offers information sessions for applicants as well as courses that prepare students for applying for international grants and living and working abroad.<\/p>\n

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McCaughey on the campus of Queen’s University in Belfast. Photo courtesy of Jessica McCaughey.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At Mary Washington, English department faculty helped McCaughey perfect her own craft and inspired her to pursue writing as a career. She served as a junior copywriter and worked in corporate communications after college but found her way back to academia, earning an MFA in creative writing and a Ph.D. in rhetoric and communication from George Mason University.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s taught at The George Washington University (GWU) for over a decade, designing a professional writing program and helping revamp a global bachelor\u2019s degree curriculum. She also co-founded the Archive of Workplace Writing Experiences<\/a>, an audio collection of interviews with writers from different professions that formed the basis of her project proposal to the Fulbright committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m speaking with Belfast writers about what their work looks like post-conflict,\u201d said McCaughey, citing the decades-long struggle in Northern Ireland commonly known as The Troubles, which culminated in the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.<\/p>\n

In her free time, she plans to explore all that Northern Ireland has to offer with her husband, a staff member in the English department at George Mason, and their daughter. \u201cI\u2019ve found everyone here to be warm and welcoming, and it\u2019s such a walkable city,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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As part of her Fulbright Scholar Award, McCaughey will spend six months teaching and developing a professional writing archive at the Seamus Heaney Centre, named for a late Irish poet and playwright, at Queen’s University in Belfast. Photo courtesy of Jessica McCaughey.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And a literary one. Belfast was once home to Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett, The Chronicles of Narnia<\/em> novelist C.S. Lewis and a late Irish poet and playwright for whom the Seamus Heaney Centre \u2013 where she\u2019s developing the writing archive \u2013 was named.<\/p>\n

After her stint abroad, McCaughey will return to GWU\u2019s University Writing Program, where she teaches in the multidisciplinary first-year program and an upper-level class.<\/p>\n

But her favorite is a community-engaged course that partners with a nonprofit founded by one of her former students. The young scholars she teaches now are asked to write, research and create multimedia projects for Clinic+O, which brings tech-enabled healthcare to rural communities in West Africa.<\/p>\n

She credits Mary Washington courses like Literature of Resistance, taught by late Professor Emeritus Taddesse Adera, for helping her better understand global struggles in different parts of the world, including the African diaspora and Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Adera was brilliant, kind and probably one of the most influential professors I\u2019ve ever had,\u201d said McCaughey, recalling how he often came into the bar she worked in during college, where they\u2019d discuss life and literature.<\/p>\n

She also appreciates the guidance she received from late Professor Emerita Claudia Emerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. McCaughey herself has had essays published in prominent publications and is working on a book about writing during career changes.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of my professors were so incredibly supportive,\u201d she said. \u201cMary Washington was really the perfect place for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Learn about applying for UMW Scholarships<\/a> established by private support, including those to study abroad, as well as external education abroad scholarships<\/a> through UMW’s Center for International Education<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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