Sheryl Mylan

Sheryl Mylan, Ph.D.

Professor, English

Tel.: (630) 942-3262
Berg Instructional Center (BIC), Room 2516F
mylans@cod.edu

Areas of Research Interest:

• Developmental composition
• American modernism and postmodernism
   

Recent Courses Taught:

• Developmental English
• American literature survey II
• American modernist fiction
• The Jazz Age
• Postmodern American fiction
   

Current Projects:

• Developmental text—focus on the visual
   

Selected Publications, Presentations, Performances, Books:

• Voices and Visions: An Integrated Approach to Reading and Writing
• "Sight and Insight: Mental Imagery and Visual Thinking in the Composition Classroom"
• "The Mother as Other: Orientalism in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior"
• "'Witness the Words Being Born': The Miscarriage of Language in William Carlos Williams' Stecher Trilogy"
   

Education:

• Ph.D. English University of California-Riverside
• M.A. English San Diego State University
• B.A. English Southern Illinois University
   

Awards and Recognitions

• Nominated to serve on the Executive Committee for the Assembly of the Expanded Perspectives in Learning