Dr. Rachel Azima

Assistant Professor

Office: S209A
Phone:
Fax: (248) 204-3518
E-Mail: razima@ltu.edu

Office hours by appointment.

Rachel Azima earned her A.B. from Vassar College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the recipient of the Mary M. Adams Dissertator Fellowship and the Capstone Ph.D. Teaching Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research and teaching interests include nature writing and ecocriticism, world literature, nineteenth-century American literature, and Native American literature, as well as poetry and creative nonfiction. Her essay on Jamaica Kincaid has been published in the *Journal for Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies*, and her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in the *Wisconsin Academy Review* and *Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes*. She is currently revising her dissertation, "Alien Soil: Ecologies of Transplantation in Contemporary Literature," for publication.