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Email: chowkaren@deanza.edu ; Phone: 408-864-5763 Office: F11-K
Some fun pictures (click on the links below):
"Karen & Desi" "Karen & George" WRC opening day
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In Winter 2011, I am teaching an online ELIT 21 class, EWRT 211, and an IMPACT AAPI LART 211. My office hours are Mondays 11:30-12:30, and Wednesdays 3:30-4:30, and by appointment.
I teach English, Women's Studies, and Asian American Studies at De Anza College.
See my Class
List in the menu on the left side of this
page for courses that I teach and have taught here.
In addition, from Fall 2006-Winter 2010, I was also a faculty director for the Writing and Reading
Center (WRC), which is located in ATC 309. The WRC provides drop-in
tutoring help for writing and reading for ANY class, and also,
workshops and other events that celebrate authors, reading, and writing
are often held there. All workshops and events are free and
open to anyone to attend/participate.
See the WRC website.
I am an avid supporter of ¡LEAD!, IMPACT AAPI, Sankofa, First Year Experience, Puente, and other student support programs at De Anza. I occasionally teach EWRT classes that support IMPACT AAPI, ¡LEAD! and Sankofa.
I co-teach, with Kristin Skager and Jim Nguyen, an IMPACT AAPI grant-supported course called "Honoring Our Communities: From the Bay Area to Southeast Asia/The Pacific" LART 211 course (check out our FACEBOOK page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=77903401576&;ref=ts )
which is a combined writing and reading course. In this class, we will be learning about and discussing experiences and issues concerning Filipino, Southeast Asian (Vietnamese, Cambodian, Thai, Laotian, Hmong), and Pacific Islander Americans.
Also, I teach ELIT/WMST 21, Women In Literature, ICS/ELIT 24 Asian American Literature, and other ELIT courses.
A
little about my educational background: I completed my Ph.D.
and M.A. in English at U.C. Santa Barbara (my dissertation was about
Asian American literature and the construction of community
identities), and I also have a B.S. degree from the University of
Southern California. Prior to coming to De Anza, I was an
assistant professor of English and Asian American Studies at the
University of Connecticut, Storrs. My current
teaching/community interests: literature, prose writing, and films
about contemporary culture, especially around issues of race,
ethnicity, class, and gender; Food (eating, cooking, and writings about
food culture and politics); encouraging students to learn more about
and become more engaged in the world around them from De Anza to
beyond...
This page is continuously under construction, so please be
patient and contact me if you have any questions about my courses and
work at De Anza! My email is: chowkaren@deanza.edu,
and my phone is (408) 864-5763.
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