Nicole Matos
Assistant Professor, English

Tel.: (630) 942-4120
Fax.: (630) 942-3711
Room: IC 3114B
e-mail: matosn@cod.edu

Major Teaching and Research Areas

Caribbean Literature; Postcolonial Literature and Theory; Twentieth-Century Literature; Composition Pedagogy

Publications

“ ‘Join, Interchangeable Phantoms’: From Metaphor to Metonymy in Walcott’s Omeros.”      Small Axe 10.2, June 2006
Intersections: A Reader for Writers in the Classroom and Beyond, an innovative first-year      composition text focusing on everyday and workplace writings, with co-author William J.      Kelly, Longman Publishing, 2005
“Meiotic Fictions: Hybridity and the Reproduction of the New.” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in      Emerging Knowledge 9, Fall 2004
“Doctoring the Improbable Life: The Obstetric(k)s of Robert Antoni.” La Torre 32, Spring       2004
“The Difference Between the Two Bundles: Body and Cloth in the Works of Jamaica      Kincaid.”Callaloo 25.3, September 2002
“On Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Of Love and Other Demons.” The Explicator 59.1, Fall 2000

Presentations

“In the Vicinity of the Land of the Almost: The Rhizomatic Stylistics of Kincaid’s Mr. Potter.” Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars. Hollywood, Florida, May 2006
“Doctoring the Improbable Life: The Obstetric(k)s of Robert Antoni.” Eastern Caribbean Cultures Conference. St. John’s, Antigua, November 2003 
“ ‘The Difference Between the Two Bundles’: Body and Cloth in the Works of Jamaica Kincaid.” Caribbean Crossings: Conference of the American Comparative Literature Society.  San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2002
“Trauma, Narrative, and the ‘Heresy’ of Healing: Dimensions of the Mythic in Pat Barker’s
Regeneration.” Central New York Conference on Language and Literature. Cortland,
New York, October 2000

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor of English, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL 
     August 2005-present
                  World Literature in English
                  Introduction to Literature
                  College Composition
                  Developmental Composition
                               
Adjunct Instructor, Merced Community College, Merced, CA
     August 2004—May 2005
                  Developmental Composition
               
Adjunct Instructor, Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA  
      September 2003—May 2004
                 Introduction to Literature
                 Developmental Composition

Graduate Instructor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
      September 1999—May 2004
                World Literature in English Studies in Twentieth-Century Fiction
                Society and Literature
                College Composition
                Developmental Composition

Institutional Service

Literature Committee, College of DuPage. August 2005-present
Developmental Writing Committee, College of DuPage.  August 2005-present
Graduate Studies Committee, University of Massachusetts. January 2002-May 2004

Awards

John Hicks Prize, English Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst May 2004
Award for best graduate essay on a literary subject exclusive of the Renaissance.  Essay title: “ ‘Join, Interchangeable Phantoms’: From Metaphor to Metonymy in Walcott’s Omeros.”
               
Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, Semifinalist March 1999
Award for dedication to teaching and academic excellence, one of only 300
humanities doctoral candidates interviewed nationally

Education:

Ph.D expected Spring 2008
A.B.D in English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, April 2005
M.A. in English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 2001
B.A. in English, summa cum laude, Rhode Island College, May 1999

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