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"