Nicole Matos

Nicole Matos

Associate Professor, English

Tel.: (630) 942-4120
Berg Instructional Center (BIC), Room 2615F
matosn@cod.edu

Major Teaching and Research Areas

• Developmental Composition
• Caribbean Literature;
• Postcolonial Literature and Theory;
• Twentieth-Century Literature;
• Composition Pedagogy
   

Publications

• "In the Vicinity of the Land of the Almost: The Stylistics of Kincaid's Mr. Potter." Forthcoming, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, March 2009
• " 'Join, Interchangeable Phantoms': From Metaphor to Metonymy in Walcott's Omeros." Small Axe 10.2, June 2006
• Intersections: A Reader for Writers in the Classroom and Beyond, an innovative first-year composition text focusing on everyday and workplace writings, with co-author William J. Kelly, Longman Publishing, 2005
• "Meiotic Fictions: Hybridity and the Reproduction of the New." Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 9, Fall 2004
• "Doctoring the Improbable Life: The Obstetric(k)s of Robert Antoni." La Torre 32, Spring 2004
• "The Difference Between the Two Bundles: Body and Cloth in the Works of Jamaica Kincaid." Callaloo 25.3, September 2002
• "On Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Of Love and Other Demons." The Explicator 59.1, Fall 2000
   

Presentations

• "In the Vicinity of the Land of the Almost: The Rhizomatic Stylistics of Kincaid's Mr. Potter." Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars. Hollywood, Florida, May 2006
• "Doctoring the Improbable Life: The Obstetric(k)s of Robert Antoni." Eastern Caribbean Cultures Conference. St. John's, Antigua, November 2003
• " 'The Difference Between the Two Bundles': Body and Cloth in the Works of Jamaica Kincaid." Caribbean Crossings: Conference of the American Comparative Literature Society. San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2002
• "Trauma, Narrative, and the 'Heresy' of Healing: Dimensions of the Mythic in Pat Barker's Regeneration." Central New York Conference on Language and Literature. Cortland, New York, October 2000

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor of English, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
August 2005-present

• World Literature in English
• Introduction to Literature
• College Composition
• Developmental Composition

Adjunct Instructor, Merced Community College, Merced, CA
August 2004—May 2005

• Developmental Composition

Adjunct Instructor, Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA
September 2003—May 2004

• Introduction to Literature Developmental
• Composition

Graduate Instructor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
September 1999—May 2004

• World Literature in English Studies in Twentieth-Century Fiction
• Society and Literature
• College Composition
• Developmental Composition

Institutional Service

• Literature Committee, College of DuPage. August 2005-present
• Developmental Writing Committee, College of DuPage. August 2005-present
• Graduate Studies Committee, University of Massachusetts. January 2002-May 2004

Awards

• John Hicks Prize, English Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst May 2004
• Award for best graduate essay on a literary subject exclusive of the Renaissance. Essay title: " 'Join, Interchangeable Phantoms': From Metaphor to Metonymy in Walcott's Omeros." Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, Semifinalist March 1999 Award for dedication to teaching and academic excellence, one of only 300 humanities doctoral candidates interviewed nationally

Education

• Ph.D, English, University of Massachusetts Amherst, April 2008
• M.A. in English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 2001
• B.A. in English, summa cum laude, Rhode Island College, May 1999