Chikako D. Kumamoto

Chikako D. Kumamoto

Professor, English

Tel.: (630) 942-2034
Berg Instructional Center (BIC), Room 2730A
kumamoto@cod.edu

Areas of Research Interest:

• English Composition
• Literary research and writing on English Renaissance and Victorian eras
• Women's Studies

Recent Courses Taught:

• English 1101, 1102 - Composition sequence
• Literature classes

Current Projects:

• The COD Anthology of Student Writing Across the Curriculum
• Writing Project on Madam Butterfly
• "The Wrath of Hera and Achilles: One Manifestation of Doubleness in Homer's Iliad" article in progress

Selected Publications, Presentations, Performances, Books:

• ERIC ED 140574 on the 1997 4 C's presentation
• "Growing Old," Prairie Light Review (Spring 1997)
• "When Math and English Collide," Courier, (April 12, 2001)
• "Fitzgerald's 'a pair of enormous eggs' and other egg-inspired images," accepted for publication by The Explicator. vol. 60, no. 1, 2001 • COD Transfer Program Guide "English Career Opportunities"
• "Bakhtin's Others and Writing As Bearing Witness to the Eloquent 'I'," CCC vol. 54, no. 1, 2002
• A poem "I Go There Forever" accepted for publication
   

Education:

• Ph.D. English Renaissance Literature & Rhetoric, Loyola University Chicago
• M.L.A. Liberal Arts, University of Chicago
• M.A. English, Hiroshima University
• M.A. English, Marquette University

 

Awards and Recognitions:

• Inclusion in the "Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2002"
• Fulbright Scholarship to Study at Marquette University
• Marquette University Graduate Study Scholarship
• "Scholars for Dream Travel Award" by Conference on College Composition and Communication Conference in 1997.