English
Faculty
Sara Kakazu, M.A.
Assistant Professor of English
Office: Stauffer Hall
Phone: (707) 965-6616
Education:
B.A., Walla Walla College, 2002
M.A., Western Washington University, 2004
Biography:
Kakazu came to teach at PUC in 2008, following graduate studies in New York. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University at Buffalo, New York. She has presented for such events as the WWU Scholars’ Week Graduate Symposium, the Southern Writers Symposium, and the College English Association. Her teaching and research interests include nineteenth-century American literature, early American literature, and African American literature; poetry; women’s, captivity, slave, encounter, and travel narratives of; critical race theory; and creative nonfiction.
Kakazu came to teach at PUC in 2008, following graduate studies in New York. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University at Buffalo, New York. She has presented for such events as the WWU Scholars’ Week Graduate Symposium, the Southern Writers Symposium, and the College English Association. Her teaching and research interests include nineteenth-century American literature, early American literature, and African American literature; poetry; women’s, captivity, slave, encounter, and travel narratives of; critical race theory; and creative nonfiction.