Centre College's Caroline Schoeffler earns Fulbright Fellowship

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Caroline Schoeffler of Centerville

DANVILLE, KY (06/06/2013)(readMedia)-- Caroline Schoeffler of Centerville, a May graduate of Centre College, was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship. She will spend the next year in Austria researching Vienna's influence on Eduard Hanslick, a prominent but understudied 19th-century musicologist and critic, in addition to teaching English at an inner-city, vocational high school.

Schoeffler says that she originally couldn't decide whether she wanted to do a research project or teach English in a German-speaking country. Austria is the only Fulbright country that allowed both.

She received dual degrees in music and German at Centre, after first taking up German language in middle school, in part because of German heritage. But she can't separate language from music. "Why are there such strong musical traditions in Germanic areas?" she asks. She hopes to further explore the question through graduate work in musicology at Yale after her year in Austria.

Schoeffler is the daughter of Nick and Paula Schoeffler of Centerville and is a graduate of Centerville High School.

Centre College, founded in 1819, is a nationally ranked liberal arts college in Danville, Ky. Centre hosted its second Vice Presidential Debate on 10.11.12, and remains the smallest college in the smallest town ever to host a general election debate.