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Lynda D. McNeil
Dominguez Canyon, Gunnison River, western Colorado (2008)
Lynda D. McNeil, Ph.D.
Program for Writing and Rhetoric (retired)
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0359
Email: Lynda.McNeil@colorado.edu
Profile
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).
In 2007, I combined my research in rock art studies with my teaching in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at
the University of Colorado, Boulder. This work resulted in a book chapter entitled "The Nine Mile Canyon Coalition:
Rhetorical Landscapes, Responsible Public Land Use" published in 2009 in Rhetorics, Literacies, and Narratives of
Sustainability, P. Goggin, ed. 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. I retired from CU in 2011 to pursue independent
research in interdisciplinary approaches to ancient graphic discourse systems such pre-conquest codices, southwest
rock art, and iconography in material culture.
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