Myra Salcedo

Background

About Myra Salcedo

Goal: Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition. Dissertation:"Negotiating the Sacred in Secular Writing Spaces: The Rhetoric of Religion in American University Composition Textbooks." Thesis in visual rhetoric of twentieth century literature intersecting with Vermeer paintings. Selected to present "First Year Compositon: When the Teacher is the Text "at the March 2010 in Louisville. • Scheduled to chair the panel:"Freshman English and Composition: Discontinuities and Continuities” at the 2009 South Central Modern Language Association conference in Baton Rouge, LA. • Served as secretary of the panel Freshman Composition: Borders in First-Year Composition for the November 2008 SCMLA conference in San Antonio. • Presented the paper “Saint or Revolutionary? The Migrant Worker of Martydom of Cherrìe Moraga’s Cerezita” at the University of Texas at Arlington Dec. 5, 2007 symposium “The Special Dead: Lives and Afterlives of the Cult of the Saints.” • Presented the paper “Charlotte von Mahlsdorf:(Miss)-Constructing Identity in I Am My Own Wife” for the panel “What Hath Angels Wrought? Queer Drama Beyond the Millennium” at the April 10-13 Northeastern Modern Language Association conference in Buffalo, New York. • Chaired the Comparative Literature Studies panel for the Nov. 1-3 2007 SCMLA conference. •Presented the paper “What The Blind Girl Saw: Pre-Raphaelites and the Agency of Vision” on at the SCMLA November 2007 conference. • Presented “What The Blind Girl Saw: Pre-Raphaelites Constructing Class Through the Agency of Vision” at the Oct. 10-13 North American Victorian Studies Association conference in Victoria, British Columbia. PUBLICATIONS: • The book review “The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel: Narrative Challenges to Visual Gendered Boundaries,” published in the September 2008 George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies journal (Nos. 54-55), Northern Illinois University. Specialties: Teaching writing, rhetoric, theory, British Literature, tutoring international ESL students in the Writing Center. Serving as a writing coach in the academic and the business professional arena.