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• Carlisle Hall, 212

Years of Service at UT Arlington

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, (2006-present)

Education

• ABD, University of Texas - Arlington
• MA, University of Texas - Permian Basin, 2004
• BA, University of Texas - Permian Basin, 1988

Current Research

Myra Salcedo's primary interests are in rhetoric and composition, especially in examining the rhetoric of American religion in the public sphere. Her research involves employing rhetorical theory and strategies in order to step into the gaps where dialectic breaks down due to conflict. These same strategies can be used to teach the tough topics in the composition classroom. In addition, Myra Salcedo teaches sophomore British literature, primarily the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the intersections of verbal and visual rhetoric. Other interests include disability studies, comparative literature and digital media.

Recent Publications

• Review of The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel: Narrative Challenges to Visual Gendered Boundaries By Sophia Andres. 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. 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.

Conference Papers

• Rethinking Disability in First-Year Composition: When the Teacher is the Text. Paper accepted for 62nd Annual Convention of the CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication), April 6-9, 2011.
• Heroes and Saints: The Migrant Worker of Martrydom of Cherrìe Moraga’s Cerezita. Presented at the South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) Comparative Literature panel, Oct. 28-30, 2010.
• Saint or Revolutionary? The Migrant Worker of Martrydom of Cherrìe Moraga’s Cerezita. Presented at the University of Texas at Arlington Dec. 5, 2007 symposium "The Special Dead: Lives and Afterlives of the Cult of the Saints."
• Charlotte von Mahlsdorf: (Miss)-Constructing Identity in "I Am My Own Wife". Presented on 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.
• What The Blind Girl Saw: Pre-Raphaelites and the Agency of Vision. Presented on the British Literature Panel of the SCMLA November 2007 conference.
• What The Blind Girl Saw: Pre-Raphaelites Constructing Class Through the Agency of Vision. Presented at the Oct. 10-13 North American Victorian Studies Association conference in Victoria, British Columbia.

Consulting

• Community Service Consulting
• Fiction and creative non-fiction judge for the 2007 The Quill, a literary publication of Sigma Tau Delta of UTA.
• University Intercollegiate League (UIL) judge for West Texas high school speech, debate, extemporaneous reading, and journalism (hard news, opinion, headline and feature writing) competitions in both Midland and Odessa.
• Long-time essay contest judge for Midland College’s Annual Creative Writing Contest for the literary Tableau magazine.

Professional Memberships

• Sigma Tau Delta, National English Honor Society
• National Council of Teachers of English
• 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.