English
Faculty
Sara Kakazu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Office: Stauffer Hall
Phone: (707) 965-6616
Faculty Since: 2008
Education:
B.A., Walla Walla College, 2002
M.A., Western Washington University, 2004
Biography:
Sara Kakazu 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 and poetry.
Sara Kakazu 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 and poetry.
Professional Activities:
Dissertation Forthcoming: "Incidental Americans: Encounter and Self-Construction in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Travel Narratives"