English

Faculty

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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 research at the College English Association, NeMLA, and the International Conference on Narrative. Her teaching and research interests include nineteenth-century American literature, early American literature, and African American literature, with particular focus on women's, captivity, slave, encounter, and travel narratives. She also teaches creative nonfiction.