Assistant Professor of English
Office Location: HE 425
Phone Number: (262) 472-4976
Email Address: kamt@uww.edu

Degrees:                                                                                                                                                                                             1994: B.A., University of California, Berkeley, in English and Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major (Focus: Sociolinguistics). Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.
October 2002: University of California, Santa Cruz, Parenthetical Notation in American Studies.
March 2003: Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, in Literature. Subjects: 20th Century U.S. Literature, Multicultural Literature, Autobiography.

Areas of Teaching:                                                                                                                                                                           Multicultural Literature, Women in Literature, Auto/Biography, Creative Writing

Courses Taught:
Multicultural Literature, Women in Literature, U.S. Minority Women Writers, World of Ideas, Freshman English

Honors:
National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar: "Narrative Theory and Ethics," facilitated by James Phelan, Ohio State University, Summer 2005.

Select Publications:
Peer-Reviewed Articles
"Traveling Identities: Between Worlds in Karen Tei Yamashita's Circle K Cycles," forthcoming in ellipsis: Journal of the American Portuguese Studies Association, December 2008, pages 9-32. ellipsis is published by Rutgers University.
"Velvet Coats and Manicured Nails: the Body Speaks Resistance in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on the Road," The Southern Literary Journal is published by The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Community Publications
"The Ethics of War," Asian Wisconzine, August 2005.
"Beyond Black and White: Frank Wu Speaks at UW-Whitewater," Asian Wisconzine, April 2005.
"Asian Girl Hair," Asian Wisconzine, March 2005.

Select Presentations:
"The Virginia Tech Story: Translating Tragedy"; International Auto/Biography Association Conference; Honolulu, HI; June 2008.
"Passion, Pedophiles and Brats: Desire and Ethics in Todd Field's Little Children"; International Conference on Narrative; Austion, Texas; May 2008.
"Velvet Coats and Manicured Nails: Zora Neale Huston (Re)Classifies the Body in Dust Tracks on the Road"; International Conference on Narrative; Washington, D.C.; March 2007.
"Mediating Identity: Comic Confusion and Cultural Prophency in Persepolis"; International Auto/Biography Association Conference; Mainz, Germany; July 2006.
"Deceased, Deviant, and Duplicitous Bodies in the Autobiographical Narratives of Maxine Hong Kingston," PCA/ACA Conference, San Diego, March 2005.
"Traveling Identities: A Cartography of Dekasegi Desire and Saudade in Karen Tei Yamashita's Circle K Cycles," International Auto/Biography Association, Hong Kong, March 2004.