Faculty and Staff
Deborah Adelman
Professor, English
Tel.: (630) 942-3406
Fax: (630) 942-3811
Room: IC 2059F
e-mail: adelman@cod.edu
Areas of Research Interest:
• Adult Second Language Acquisition
• Interdisciplinary Education
• Place and Community-Based Studies
• Ecological Literacy and Environmental Studies
Recent Courses Taught:
• Seed, Soil and the Soul: - A combination of Introduction to Literature and Humans and the Environment, co-taught with a Biology Professor, focusing on food, culture and agriculture
• The Environment on Screen - A combination of Film as Literature and Humans and the Environment, co-taught with a Biology Professor
• The Literature of Life - A combination of Introduction to Literature and Introduction to Biology, co-taught with a Biology Professor
• Creative Writing
• Composition
• English as a Second Language (ESL)
• Short Fiction
Current Projects:
• Creative Non-Fiction Memoir
• Short story collection
Selected Publications, Presentations, Performances, Books:
Books
• The Children of Perestroika Come of Age: Young People of Moscow Talk About Life in the New Russia. M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, N.Y
• The Children of Perestroika: Moscow Teenagers Talk About Their Lives and the Future. M.E. Sharpe, Inc. Armonk, N.Y.
Fiction
• “Don’t Be Sad in Paradise” “The Faye Stories” “La Loca" “Brownsville" “Turn the Other Cheek" “A Simple Matter" “Following the Waters"
Essays/Articles
• "A Mother and Daughter on the Subject of Men"
• "Reflections From the Garden”
• “The Boy Who Would Have Been"
• “After Graduation, What? The Value of an Education in the New Order”
Reviews
• “Russian Youth and Modernity”
• “Between Doubt and Faith,” Review of S.L. Wisenberg’s The Sweetheart Is In, Review of Russia’s Youth and Its Culture: A Nation’s Constructors and Constructed
Selected recent conference presentations:
• Twentieth Century Language and Literature (University of Louisville) February 2007
• Western States Rhetoric and Literacy (University of Utah) 2006
• Illinois Philological Association (DePaul University 2006)
• Consortium of International and Experiential Education (Miami 2005)
• Conference on College Composition and Communication (San Francisco 2004)
Awards and Honors
• Finalist Guild Complex Fiction Series 2005
• Residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, a colony for writers and artists.
• Pushcart nominations for “La Loca” and “The Boy Who Would Have Been”
• Quarter finalist, New Century Writers’ Contest, “As If By Accident”
Memberships
• Editorial Board, Open Words
• Society of Midland Authors
• Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
• Midwestern Environmental Educators Association
Grants/Awards/Projects
• Co-founder and Director, College of DuPage Community Organic Garden
• Book Across Campus, College of DuPage
• 1984 plus 20 Orwell Project at College of DuPage (in conjunction with the NCTE national project)
Education:
Ph.D. New York University
M.A. New School for Social Research
B.A. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Awards and Recognitions:
• Residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, a colony for writers and artists
• Pushcart nomination for "The Boy Who Would Have Been" and "LaLoca"