Chikako D. Kumamoto
Professor, English

Tel.: (630) 942-2034
Fax.: (630) 942-3711
Room: 3113b
e-mail: 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
• C.O.D. 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.


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