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"