Fulbright Recipient Takes Her Literary Research to Vienna Before Heading to Graduate School
June 30, 2026
Emily Trujillo’s research involves the works of two famed Austrians – reason enough for the Rutgers University-New Brunswick graduate to head to the culturally rich nation in Central Europe.
Rutgers-New Brunswick graduate Emily Trujillo attended a Fulbright orientation event at the Vienna residence of the U.S. ambassador to Austria on Sept. 18.
Thanks to a grant from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the Hillsborough Township, N.J., resident spent October through June in Vienna, where she taught English, engaged in coursework and conducted research on a combined research and teaching grant – a Fulbright opportunity available only in Austria.
Trujillo, who graduated from the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences in spring 2025 with bachelor degrees in philosophy and German literature, discusses her research project – tracing aphasia (the inability or impaired ability to understand or produce speech) in the works of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek – and her post-Fulbright plans.
Reposted from Rutgers Today