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Teresa Contino ’23 will be an English teaching assistant at a high school in the Czech Republic, where she hopes to create a welcoming learning environment that inspires her students to feel heard in both conversation and writing.

“My double major in English and psychology has inspired my understanding of writing as a reflective and metacognitive process that enacts conversation between people,” said Contino, who has been drawn to the Czech Republic since a trip to Eastern Europe with her family. “I am interested in the relationship between language and memory and how collaborative exercises can deepen students’ learning.”

At Santa Clara,  the Malibu native has been recognized as the Center for Arts and Humanities 2021-2022 Digital Humanities Fellow as a co-author of “Composing Collaborative Feminist Recovery Projects with Scalar.”  She is a Healthcare Innovation and Design Lab Communications Fellow, a University Honors student, and belongs to Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society.

Contino has been a research assistant in the Learning & Remembering Lab and serves as the editor of the Santa Clara Review, the university’s bi-annual literary magazine.

Her experience at the Santa Clara Review has motivated her to see what literary offerings are like in the Czech Republic, where she hopes to explore writing workshops and reach out to organizations that promote developing writers and artists. 

About the Fulbright U.S. Student Program
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