Janine Oshiro, English Instructor

Contact Information

Department of Language Arts
Na‘auao 131
Windward Community College
45-720 Kea‘ahala Rd.
Kaneohe, HI 96744

Phone: (808) 236-9231

Email: jhoshiro@hawaii.edu

Office Hours - Fall, 2009

Monday: 11:30-12:30
Tuesday: 9:30-10:30
Wednesday: 11:30-12:30
Thursday: 9:30-10:30
Friday: 11:30-12:30

and by appointment

Class Schedule - Fall, 2009

• ENG 100 - Expository Writing (3)
                  MW, 5:30pm to 6:55pm, PALANA 124, CRN 62044 - view syllabus
• ENG 100 - Expository Writing (3)
                  TTh, 1:30pm to 2:45pm, PALANA 124, CRN 62153 - view syllabus
• ENG 22 - Intro to Expository Writing (3)
                  MWF, 8:30am to 9:20am, MLEO 102, CRN 62039 - view syllabus
• ENG 22 - Intro to Expository Writing (3)
                  MWF, 10:30am to 11:20am, MLEO 101, CRN 62042 - view syllabus
• ENG 22 - Intro to Expository Writing (3)
                  TTh, 8:15am to 9:30am, MLEO 103, CRN 62357 - view syllabus

Courses Taught

• ENG 22 - Introduction to Expository Writing
• ENG 100 - Expository Writing

Other Campus Activities

• Coordinator of Star Poets
• Developmental Education Committee

Education

• Mililani High School
• Whitworth College, B.A. in English and Art
• Portland State University, M.A. in Writing
• University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, M.F.A. in English (Poetry)

Awards

• Editor's Choice Award winner for Poetry for Bamboo Ridge, #94

A Few Publications

• Recent poems in Bamboo Ridge # 94 - Editors' Choice Award for New Bamboo Ridge Writer
• Poems in Thermos Magazine
  
• "I Spy," essay in Oregon Humanities
• "Next, Dust," poem in Beloit Poetry Journal
• Poems in Caffeine Destiny

Activities and Affiliations

• Kundiman
  
• Star Poets/Poetry Recess

A Few Writers and Books I Love

• Elizabeth Bishop
• Emily Dickinson
• A.R. Ammons
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Wallace Stevens
• Robert Frost
• Don't Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine
• Indeed I Was Pleased With the World by Mary Ruefle
• Aggregate of Disturbances by Michele Glazer
• Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
• Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West by M.B. Parkes
• Artful Sentences by Virginia Tufte
• The Art of Simple Foods by Alice Waters

Most Interesting Job

Working the late shift at Zippy's

Favorite Places to Eat and Shop

• KCC Farmers' Market
• The Alley at Aiea Bowl
• Phuket Thai
• Deluxe Pastry in Kaneohe
• Hokulani Bakery