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Homepage of Lynda D. McNeil
Dominguez Canyon, Gunnison River, western Colorado (2008)
Lynda D. McNeil
Program for Writing and Rhetoric
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0359
USA
Phone: (303) 735-4673
email: Lynda.McNeil@colorado.edu
schedule: Fall 2008 schedule
After earning a doctorate in Comparative Literature in 1980 from the University of Maryland, College Park,
I devoted several years to college teaching college writing and modern poetry, while conducting research
in these fields. My dissertation on modern poetry, The Mythic Mode of Symbolic Discourse, was published
in 1992.
In 1996, my research took a new and exciting turn, as I became increasingly interested in preliterate forms of
narrative (oral traditions, ritual and ceremony, and iconography, predominantly rock art). Currently, most of my
research and published scholarship pertains to this area of academic inquiry. It focuses on Native American
cultures (archaeology and material culture, ethnohistories, oral histories, and rock art), mainly in the American
Southwest (Ute, Hopi, and Fremont).
Recently, I began to integrate my research in rock art studies with my teaching in the Program for Writing
and Rhetoric at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In fall 2007, I was invited to write a book chapter on
the "rhetorics and literacies sustainability." My chapter is entitled "The Nine Mile Canyon Coalition:
Rhetorical Landscapes, Responsible Public Land Use." This project has provided me with an opportunity to
delve into public policy issues surrounding cultural resource management in the Western United States during
the current contentious climate of energy development and concerns with renewable energy and sustainability.
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