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PROJECTS AND HOBBIES
Though teaching English subjects and providing various community services are my focal points as a COD instructor, I also have another, though invariably related, life in which I pursue research and writing projects. My quest for my private creative and scholarly self-expressions has taken forms of conference presentations, publications, and continuing education.
Publications:
Poetry:
The Prairie Light Review,
Interior Lighting,
American Anthology of Midwestern Poetry
University of Chicago Alumni Newsletter
Prose
Publications:
- An article titled “Gertrude, Ophelia, Ghost: Hamlet’s
Revenge and the Abject.” In Volume 6-2006 of the Journal of the Wooden O
Symposium.
- An article titled “Plot Inconsistencies in Act 4,
Scenes 5 and 7 in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.” In Volume 64, Summer 2006 of
The Explicator.
- An article titled “Bakhtin’s Others and Writing As
Bearing Witness to the Eloquent ‘I’.” In Volume 54, Number 2, 2002 of The
Journal of the Conference on college Composition and Communication.
- An article titled “Fitzgerald’s ‘a pair of enormous
eggs’ and other egg-inspired images in The Great Gatsby.” In Volume
60, Number 1, 2001 of The Explicator.
- A College of DuPage journal, ESSAI, The College of
DuPage Anthology of Academic Writing Across the Curriculum, Volume I
(2002-3), Volume II (2003-4), Volume III (2004-5), and Volume IV (2005-6),
in collaboration with five interdisciplinary COD faculty members.
- An article titled “When Math Collides with English.”
In April 12, 2001 edition of the COD’s Courier.
- An article titled “Reflections on the 1995 East Asia
Festival.” In COD’s International Dateline.
- Co-writer of Student Guide To The Literature
Program At COD.
- Writer and grantee of the 1999 Illinois Humanities
Council grant for the East Asia Festival.
- Writer of the 1995 and 1999 COD East Asia Festival
program brochures.
- Writer of the Philosophy Statement of the 2001 Japan
Symposium program brochure.
- Writer of the COD Transfer Program Guide: “English
Career Opportunities.”
- Writer of the text for the COD Innovative Incubator
Web Site: Project Summary.
Conference Presentations:
- 2007 Wooden O Symposium: “Shakespeare’s Achillean
Coriolanus and Heraean Volumnia: Textual Contamination and Crossing of
Homer’s Iliad in Coriolanus. Southern
Utah University, Cedar City, Utah.
- 2007 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention:
“‘Not entirely cast off’: Hawthorne’s Typological Re-reading of the Historic
Real in The Scarlet Letter.” Renaissance Center, Cleveland, Ohio.
- 2006 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention:
“Prince Hamlet, Please Meet Mr. Philip Marlowe: English Renaissance Revenge
Drama and Contemporary Mystery Fiction.” The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago,
Illinois.
- 2006 Community College Humanities Central Regional
Conference: “Japanese North Americans, War, and Communal Healing Through
Literature: Internment Memory as an Ascent in Meaning and Beauty.” Gleacher
Center of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
- 2006 Illinois Philological Association Conference:
“‘Pluck out the heart of my mystery’: Hamlet’s Discourse on Revenge as an
Outsider’s Epistemological Privilege.” DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois.
- 2004 Two-Year College English Association Midwest
Conference: “Hamlet and His ‘Scholar’s Eye’: Local Criticism in the
Literature Classroom.” Holiday Inn City Center, Peoria, Illinois.
- 2004 Conference on College Composition and
Communication: “The Attestive Gaze: Japanese-American Internment Literature
as Rhetoric of Epistemological Ascent.” San Antonio Hyatt, San Antonio,
Texas.
- 2001 COD Japan Symposium: “The Paradox of the Form in
Japanese Poetry.” College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
- 1999 COD Seven Pillars Liberal Arts Conference:
“’law’s delay’ and the Stirs of the Private Eye Detective: Hamlet’s Wild
Justice as an Outsider’s Epistemological Opening.” College of DuPage, Glen
Ellyn, Illinois.
- 1998 COD Seven Pillars Liberal Arts Conference:
“Illiberal Education of Chikako D. Kumamoto: Intertextualizing Canon and
Apocrypha as a Cognitive Opening.” College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
- 1997 Conference on College Composition and
Communication: “‘Unison in Variety, Congeniality in Difference’: Sifting
Beyond the Multicultural Sieve.” Hyatt Regency, Phoenix, Arizona.
- 1995 Summer Multi-Cultural Feminism Community Lecture
Series, sponsored by the DuPage Chapter of the NOW: “Challenges and Triumphs
of Asian Women’s Americanization.” Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
- 1995 Annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs:
“Madame Butterfly No More: Shifting Images of Asian Women in American
Popular Culture.” University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1994 COD Seminar Series on Japan: “An Island Close to
paradise: A Short History of Japanese Christianity.” Harper College,
Palatine, Illinois.
- 1994 Newberry Library Lyceum Seminar: “The Dark Arrow:
The Avenger in English Renaissance Tragedies and the Twentieth-Century
Detective Fiction.” Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois.
- 1993 Chicago-Area English Articulation Conference: “In
Collaboration with History: Refashioning Teaching Literature.” University of
Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Awards and Recognitions:
- Received the Liberal Arts Division Outstanding Faculty
of the Year Award, 2005-2006.
- Received the Community College Humanities
Association’s first Distinguished Achievement Award for the publications of
COD’s academic anthology ESSAI, Volumes I and II.
- Received the 2002 Integrated Curriculum Award from the
DuPage Area Education to Career Consortium.
- Twice nominated as the COD’s Outstanding Faculty
Award, 2001-2002 and 2004-2005.
- Twice honored in the Who’s Who Among America’s
Teachers, 2002, 2005.
- Nominated for the college’s overall Outstanding
Faculty Award, 2005.
- Received the 1997 Scholars for the Dream Travel Award
of the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
- Received the 1999 Illinois Humanities Council grant
for the project titled “East Asian Women and Freedom” for the Asia
Committee.
- Received the Fulbright and Marquette University
scholarships.
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