Bonnie Jean Adams

First Year Writing

Bonnie Jean Adams is a native of Chicago, IL who has traveled widely overseas and in the United States. She holds a doctorate degree from Loyola University Chicago in Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, with particular focus upon the philosophical and cultural foundations of education-- the study of how culture influences learning methodology and philosophy.

Currently teaching research writing and community communication courses at Benedictine University in Lisle, IL, Dr. Adams has begun teaching writing through the use of interviews at Columbia College Chicago. Her research about culture and communication has been published in articles and presented at conferences. Her research reports about cultural concerns have been published in sociological textbooks.

As she encourages her students to move beyond the classroom, Dr. Adams has her own record of experience "in the field". She has worked with the Houma Indians in Houma, LA and with the Lakota Indians on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Most recently, Dr. Adams has been writing curriculum which focuses upon learning through observational interviews and ethnographical experience. She believes in making communication an ongoing practice through active listening, which she describes as "listening loudly", and she describes her best advice to those who will be opening the dialogue and beginning a relationship of cultural communication is to "First, be uncomfortable..."

Office Location: English Department, suite 514, 5th floor, 33 E. Congress

Office Phone: 312-344-8125

FAX: 312-344-8001

Email: badams@colum.edu

Mailing Address:
Bonnie Jean Adams
Department of English
Columbia College of Chicago
600 So. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605