Kyoko Amano, M.A., Indiana State, Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton Associate Professor Multicultural Literature, Contemporary Literature E-Mail --<amano@uindy.edu> Office -- Esch 044M

 

Doctoral Dissertation: Alger's Shadows: Reconsidering the American Dream

Education

• PhD, SUNY Binghamton, 2001
• Certificate for College Teaching in English, SUNY Binghamton, 2001
• Certificate for Advanced Study in English, ISU, 1998
• MA, ISU, 1997
• MA, English, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, 1992
• BA, English, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, 1989

Recent Activities

• Indiana Campus Compact Scholarship of Engagement Grant
• Summer 2005 U Indy Summer Research Grant
• Summer 2004-2007 MLA Field Bibliography Fellowship
• Summer 2004 NEH Summer Institute Fellowship for "Regional Studies and Liberal Arts: Appalachia Up Close"

Publications

• "Frost's 'Acquainted with the Night.'" Explicator 65.1 (Fall 2006): 39-42.
• "Alger's Shadow in Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 47.1 (2005): 23-39.
• "Cut and Create; or, Alger's Editors Make Success Heroes." Newsboy 42.5 (Sept.-Oct. 2004): 5-7.
• "Lonny Kaneko." Asian American Short Story Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. Ed. Guiyou Huang. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 2003. pp. 115-18.
• "Lois-Ann Yamanaka." Asian American Short Story Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. Ed. Guiyou Huang. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 2003. pp. 317-25.
• The Karma of Brown Folkby Vijay Prashad. Book Review. College Literature 29:4 (Fall 2002):155-158.
• "Teaching the Toolbox: Strategies for an Introductory Theory and Criticism Course," CEA Critic 62.1 (Fall 1999):34-44.
• "The Robber Bride: The Power and the Powerless." Notes on Contemporary Literature 29.5 (Nov. 1999): 7-9.
• "Being a High School Teacher." Indiana English 20 (1996): 32-33.