CRK
My blogs
- KIMERU Sensei No Nihongo -- OPRF
- Keio University Online Course on Rare Japanese Books
- Reading 097 for College Classes at NEIU. Kimmel
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Instructor |
| Location | Chicago, IL |
| Introduction | As a Japan Foundation Fellow, Mrs. Kimmel studied at Stanford University's Amerika-Kanada Daigaku Rengo Nihon Kenkyuu Sentaa in Yokohama. For two subsequent years she was a research fellow at Yokohama City University. Mrs. Kimmel received an M.A. from the Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the U. of Chicago in 1992. For two years, she used her Japanese for business, as a recruiter at Kimata Personnel International (Kokusai Jinzai Assen) in Rolling Meadows. Mrs. Kimmel earned her B.A. at Harvard’s Radcliffe College, graduating cum laude in English. Subsequently she was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for graduate studies at Northwestern, receiving the M.A. from Northwestern's theater department. She taught Japanese at Chicago’s Walter Payton College Prep H. S. before coming to NEIU and OPRF. A member of Delta Kappa Gamma International, honorary association for women in education, Mrs. Kimmel was also listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers for 2002 and 2004. She chairs the Education Sub-Committee for Chicago Sister Cities Osaka Committee. She is a former board member at the Chicago Center for Urban Life and Culture. |
| Interests | Japan, languages, music, theater, visual arts, France, Great Britain, trains, comparative religions (Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity), tai chi, yoga |
| Favorite Movies | Searching for Sugar Man, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Year of Living Dangerously, The Long Road Home, Beyond Rangoon, Antwan Fisher, Tampopo, Day for Night, Princess Mononoke, Shall We Dance (Japanese version) |
| Favorite Music | The Beatles, Thelonious Monk, Brahms, Prokofief's 3rd Piano Concerto, Delois Barrett Campbell and the Barrett Sisters, James Taylor, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Sacred Harp |
| Favorite Books | Ursula LeGuin's "The Left Hand of Darkness" and "Four Ways to Forgiveness;" Twain's "Huckleberry Finn, " Henry James' "The Golden Bowl, " Shakespeare, George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda" |