Faculty and Staff
Chikako D. Kumamoto
Professor, English
Tel.: (630) 942-2034
Fax: (630) 942-3711
Room: M 165B
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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