Laverne Nishihara
Associate Professor of English
Faculty Senate President
Whitewater Hall 274
(765) 973-8414
lnishiha@iue.edu
Education
- PhD in English, University of Virginia, 1989
- MA in English, University of Virginia, 1982
- BA in English, University of Hawaii, 1981
Current Research Interests
Commonwealth and postcolonial literature, twentieth-century and contemporary British literature, women’s and gender studies
Selected Publications and Presentations
- “Commonwealth Medicine in Abraham Verghese’s Cutting for Stone: A Novel” at the 19th Annual British Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies Conference (February 2010)
- “The Cosmopolite Scientist: Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Abraham Verghese’s My Own Country” at the 18th Annual British Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies Conference (February 2009)
- “Abraham Verghese, Yiyun Li, and the Continuing Redefinition of Asian American Literature” at the Texas Tech Comparative Literature Symposium on “America’s Asia, Asia’s America” (April 2007)
- “’The Fetters of That Strange Freedom’: Boundary as Regulating Technique in Lord Jim” in Conradiana: An International Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies (Spring 1996)
Selected Previous Employment
- Lecturer in the Writing Center, Trinity College in Hartford, CT, 1989-1995
Selected Awards
- Helen Lees Award for Excellence in Teaching (2006)
- Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) (2002)
