Laverne Nishihara
Associate Professor of English
2019-2020 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
British Commonwealth and postcolonial literature, medicine and literature, British literature since 1900, women's and gender studies
Selected Publications and Presentations
- “South Asian Physician-Writers in the time of Covid-19” at the 30th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference (online conference) (February 2021)
- “Narrative Humility: Storytelling as Healing and Violation in Physician-Writer Sayantani DasGupta’s Narrative Medicine Pedagogy” at the 29th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference (February 2020)
- “Mortality and the Sense of an Ending in the Memoirs of Physician-Writers Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi” at the 27th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference (February 2018)
- “Sayantani DasGupta, Feminist Physician-Writer of the South Asian Diaspora” at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference (November 2015)
- “Resistance in South Asian American Medical Narratives” at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference (March 2013)
- “Oppositions of East and West, Female and Male in Medical Narratives of the South Asian Diaspora” at the 22nd Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference (February 2013)
- “‘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)