Chisom Ogoke is a Fulbright Alternate

 

Chisom Ogoke
M.F.A., Creative Writing (Fiction)
Fulbright Program: English Teaching Assistant (ETA), Spain

In 2019, first-generation Nigerian American Chisom Ogoke graduated from Texas State with honors, receiving her B.A. in both English and anthropology. Her interests in Spanish language and culture began when she started learning the language in middle school. After taking Spanish literature during her senior year of high school, Chisom found a passion reading the works of notable authors like Gabriel García Márquez, whose style of writing she infused into a creative undergraduate honors thesis that combined both her majors. If selected as a Fulbright ETA, she will work in primary, secondary, or university educational settings, assisting teaching staff and students for a full academic year. Her goals following the ETA program are to use what she learns and experiences abroad to enrich her classroom as a TA for the Texas State English Department—and all her future classrooms as she pursues her dream career of teaching English in numerous countries abroad.