Sheryl Mylan, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Communications

Tel.: (630) 942-3262
Fax.: (630) 942-3711
Room: IC-3098a
e-mail: 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

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