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Don Riccomini
English Department


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Fields of Interest
  • California Literary History
  • Literature from Shakespeare to the Present
  • Technical, Engineering, and Scientific Writing and Rhetoric
  • Shakespeare, Modernism
Biographical Note
Riccomini has a Ph.D. in English & Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He taught English composition and literature at Wisconsin and San Jose State University in the late seventies and early eighties, leaving to pursue a twenty-year career in marketing, engineering, and engineering management at HP, working in semiconductors, instrumentation, and servers. He returned to teaching in 2003, and currently serves as a lecturer in English at SCU. A second-generation California from Siskiyou County, he is associate director of the California Legacy Project.

Selected Publications
  • Unexpected Japan, with Philip M. Rosenzweig (New York: Walker & Company, 1985).
  • Various scholarly publications in the University of Toronto Quarterly, Bucknell Review, and presentations at scholarly and business conferences.