The Outreach Lecturing Fund (OLF) allows Fulbright Visiting Scholars who are currently in the United States to travel to other higher education institutions across the country.  Each year some 800 faculty and professionals from around the world receive Fulbright Scholar grants for advanced research and university lecturing.  The purpose of the OLF is to allow these scholars to share their specific research interests, speak on the history and culture of their home country, exchange ideas with U.S. students, faculty and community organizations, become better acquainted with U.S. higher education, and create linkages between their home and host institutions and CIES.

Anita Singh is a Professor in the Department of English and Co-coordinator of the Centre for Women’s Studies and Development at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Her areas of interest are Gender Studies and Performance Studies. She is published both as a critical and creative writer. She is engaged in a project sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, on ‘Staging Gender: Performing Women in the Ramlila of Ramnagar’. Her recent book is Gender, Space and Resistance: Women and Theatre in India.  She has also published interviews with Indian women theater artistes in Asian Theatre Journal.

She has been a visiting Professor at the Department of English under UGC SAP-III DRS Phase-1 Project at Vidyasagar University (West Bengal).

She has also been the Academic Counselor at Indira Gandhi National Open University. Her Short story ‘The Wait’ won the ‘Special Commendation Award’ in ‘Muse India Fiction Contest’ for the year 2008.

She is presently a Fulbright Nehru Visiting Scholar at the University of Virginia.

Fulbright campus representatives and interested faculty are encouraged to attend.