Faculty: Paulus Pimomo

Education:

• Ph.D., English, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1992.
• M. A. English, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1987.
• M. A. English (Brit. Lit), Dibrugarh University, Assam, 1975.
• B. A. English Honors, Dibrugarh University Assam, 1972.

Professional History:

• Professor of English, Central Washington U., 2005 to date.
• Associate Professor of English, CW U., 1998 to 2005.
• Assistant Professor of English, CWU., 1994-1998.

Teaching Interests and Specialties:

• 19th & 20th century British Literature
• Postcolonial Studies.
• Theory.
• African-American Literature and Culture.
• Multicultural History and Literature.

Courses Taught at CWU:

General Education:

• Eng 102 - Composition (Argument and Documentation)
• Eng 301 - Composition (Argument)
• Eng 105 - Introduction to Literature
• Eng 110 - Black Performative Culture
• Eng 247 - Multicultural Literature (American; Global; interdisciplinary-History and Literature- strands)

Undergraduate Major:

• Eng 303 - Principles of English Studies (Theory and Practical Criticism)
• Eng 306 - English Literature, 1660-1832
• Eng 307 - English Literature, 1832-Present
• Eng 329 - World Literature II
• Eng 330 - African American Literature
• Eng 383 - Literary Criticism & Theory
• Eng 496 - Individual Study
• Eng 498 - Senior Colloquium, co-taught with Dr. Sutphin.

Graduate:

• Eng 517/414 - Advanced Studies in World Literature
  Emotion and Literature (English across Lit. traditions & interdisciplinary)
  Modern Poetry & Major World Writers.
• Eng 514/410 - Advanced Studies in English Literature
  E. M. Forster & English Culture.
  Rudyard Kipling, Conrad, & Colonialism.
  G. B. Shaw & Sean O'Casey.
• Eng 517/414 - Advanced Studies in World Literature
  Literary Counterpoints, A Study of related Canonical and Non-canonical literary texts across time and traditions.
  National & Post-national Narratives: Theory and English Literature on Globalization.
• Eng 518 - Advanced Literary Criticism and Theory: Plato to the Present.

Publications and Scholarly Activities (a selection)

Books :

• Co-author, with Hidemi Masamura, A Practical and Illustrative English-Japanese Dictionary. Shogakukan, Tokyo, Japan. (In press. Publication date, early 2008).
• Co-author , with Hidemi Masamura, Dictionary of English Word-Images , Tokyo , Japan . Taishukan, 2002. (The book has become part of a Memory Stick series of a half-dozen dictionaries, including the abbreviated pocket OED, produced by Sony , Japan ).

Articles:

• "Naga Nationalism's Internal Enemy - Violence." The Morung Express: A Daily Publication for Indigenous Affairs and Justpeace. Oct.10, 2007.
• Interview. Kuknalim.com. April 25, 2007. Kuknalim.com is 2007 recipient of The Manthan Award for e-Content and Creativity. The Manthan Award (India) functions under aegis of the World Summit Award (Austria), which is connected to the U.N. World Summit on Information Society (WSIS).
• "Naga Nationalism and the Indian State under Jawaharlal Nehru," Journal of Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies , Fall 1995.
• "The Center Writes/Strikes Back?" Critical Quarterly , Autumn 1991.
• "Indian Writing on Nagas," Economic & Political Weekly , Oct.13, 1991.
• "Wordsworth's The Prelude , Bk. V." The Explicator , Summer 1989.

Conference Papers:

• "Framing Responsibility, a Literary Tradition," "Irresponsibility" & Literature Conference, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, September 28-30, 2006.
• "Woman as Postnational Exile," Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies Conference, Georgia Southern University, Savannah, GA., Feb 27-Mar 1, 2003.
• "Who is a Postnational Writer?" Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, KY, Feb. 25-28, 1998.
• "Naga Nationalism and Jawaharlal Nehru," Association of Asian Studies Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for South Asian Studies, Nov. 1993.
• "Eugenics, Frontiers of Empire, and E. M. Forster's Edwardian Novels," Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies Conference, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, April 1993.
• "India's Inclusiveness and Freedom in Mau: A Reading of Forster's A Passage to India," Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, KY, Feb. 1993.

Other Scholarly & Professional Activities:

• Associate Editor, Journal of Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies, 1993 to date.
• Columnist for Kuknalim.com. October 2007 to date. Kuknalim.com is 2007 recipient of The Manthan Award for e-Content and Creativity.
• Teaching Excellence Award, College of Arts & Humanities, CWU, 1997.

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