Professor Emerita

Bilger Hall 101
2545 The Mall
Honolulu, HI 96822

Phone: (808) 956-7193
E-mail: toyama@hawaii.edu

I was born and raised in Hawai‘i and have been a faculty member at the University of Hawai’i for more than 30 years. Most of my career has been spent in the classroom where I enjoy my interaction with students. I teach courses on practically everything: French language, poetry, the novel , Francophone literature. Recently I was able to offer a seminar on Beckett. After becoming Interim Associate Dean of LLL, I was able to teach only one course a semester. Besides scholarly endeavors I also write poetry and short stories.

Education

• BA, University of Hawai‘i
• MA, Purdue University
• PhD, University of California-Irvine

Selected Publications

• Beckett’s Game: Self and Language in the Trilogy, Peter Lang Publishers, 1991.
• Literary Relations East and West, co-edit with Nobuko Ochner, LLL/UH Press, 1990.
• What the Kite Thinks, a book of linked poetry and commentary with Ooka Makoto, Wing Tek Lum, and Joseph Stanton, UHM Outreach/UH Press, 1994.
• No Choice by to Follow, a book of linked poetry and commentary with Ann Inoshita, Juliet Kono and Christy Passion. Essay on linked poetry by Jean Toyama, Bamboo Ridge Press, 2010.

• Kelli’s Hanauma Friends, a book of poems and art about Hawaiian reef dwellers with paintings by Russell Sunabe, 2010.

 

 

Teaching Awards

• College of LLL Excellence in Teaching Award-1989
• Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching-2000
•  Beckett’s Game: Self and Language in the Trilogy, Peter Lang Publishers, 1991.
•  Literary Relations East and West, co-edit with Nobuko Ochner, LLL/UH Press, 1990.
• What the Kite Thinks, a book of linked poetry and commentary with Ooka Makoto, Wing Tek Lum, and Joseph Stanton, UHM Outreach/UH Press, 1994.
•   No Choice by to Follow, a book of linked poetry and commentary with Ann Inoshita, Juliet Kono and Christy Passion.  Essay on linked poetry by Jean Toyama, Bamboo Ridge Press, 2010.
• Kelli’s Hanauma Friends, a book of poems and art about Hawaiian reef dwellers with paintings by Russell Sunabe, 2010.