FARMINGTON – Eric Brown, an associate professor of English at University of Maine at Farmington, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to spend the 2007-2008 academic year teaching at the University of Bergen in Norway.

Brown, who has specialized in teaching medieval and Renaissance British Literature at UMF since he joined the faculty in 2003, will collaborate with University of Bergen faculty in teaching a survey of American literature and cultural studies to English-speaking Norwegian undergraduate students.

He was among 800 U.S. faculty and professionals selected from a pool of approximately 2,000 applicants for the scholarship program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.

Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program’s purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the rest of the world.

The Fulbright Scholarship follows the September 2006 publication of Brown’s book, “Insect Poetics” (Univ. of Minnesota Press, ISBN: 978-0816646968).

Edited by Brown, the book comprises 18 original essays that explore how human intellectual and cultural models have been influenced by the natural history of insects.