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Years of Service at UT Arlington:

Graduate Teaching Assistant (2006 - present)

Part-Time Lecturer (2004 - 2006)

Education:

M.A., University of Texas - Permian Basin, 2004

B.A. , University of Texas - Permian Basin, 1988

Current Research:

My primary interest is in British literature: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century British novelists invoking nineteenth-century paintings into their works in order to reconfigure gender and to subvert Victorian mores, especially in the works of Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Virginia Woolf. My dissertation will concentrate heavily on the works of Virginia Woolf. My research in Rhetoric focuses on image and text, reconfiguring gender through the media of image and text, visual rhetoric and the theory of the body as well as queer and disability studies, and the queer body on stage. In the field of composition I’m exploring visual communication in the composition classroom and its dialogic relationships with the verbal and spatial resulting in developing a pedagogy of multiliteracies.  

Recent Publications:

Salcedo, Myra, review of The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel: Narrative Challenges to Visual Gendered Boundaries http://www.utpb.edu/facultywebsite/andres_s/book_review.htm By Sophia Andres  http://www.utpb.edu/facultywebsite/andres_s/index.htm . 208 pp. incl. 16 col. plts. (Ohio State University Press, Columbus, 2005), ISBN-10: 0814251293. This review has been accepted for a 2008 publication by Style, http://www.engl.niu.edu/style. Northern Illinois University.

Thesis: Worlds Beyond the Frame: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Novelists Give Voice to Silent Paintings.

Numerous award-winning feature articles and columns published in national, state and regional newspapers and magazines, including the San Francisco Examiner, the Boston Globe, the Dallas Morning News, university literary magazines, and regional restaurant reviews for Texas Monthly magazine.

Conferences:

Serving as secretary of the panel Freshman Composition: Borders in First-Year Composition for the November 2008 South Central Modern Language Association Conference in San Antonio.

Presenting 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. Paper adviser is Dr. Carolyn Guertin.

Chaired the Comparative Literature Studies panel for the Nov. 1-3 2007 South Central Modern Language Association

Presented the paper “What The Blind Girl Saw: Pre-Raphaelites and the Agency of Vision” on the British Literature Panel of the SCMLA November 2007 conference.

Presented the paper “What The Blind Girl Saw: Pre-Raphaelites Construct Class Through the Agency of Vision” at the Oct. 10-13 North American Victorian Studies Association conference in Victoria, British Columbia.

Consulting:

Community Service Consulting:

 

Professional Memberships:

Sigma Tau Delta, National English Honor Society

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism

North American Victorian Studies Association

South Central Modern Language Association

 

 

Interviews:

Published news feature articles include interviews with Texas author and playwright Larry L. King, former Texas Governor Ann Richards, and former First Lady Barbara Bush.  

 

 

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