New Fall 2021 MALAS Seminar! New MALAS-Associated Faculty! Professor Consuelo Salas's DECOLONIAL RHETORICS

DECOLONIAL RHETORICS

Professor Consuelo Salas

MALAS-600D   02 22280 DECOLONIAL RHETORICS 3.0 Seminar 1530-1810 TH SH-320  C. SALAS

RWS-596   01 23505 DECOLONIAL RHETORICS 3.0 Lecture 1530-1810 TH SH-320  C. SALAS  30/30

In this course students will be introduced to theories and practices of decolonial rhetoric to critically think about key theoretical debates in decolonial theory and the convergence of this movement into the field of rhetoric and composition. The body of work of decolonial rhetoric is very large. Thus, this course will be neither comprehensive nor exhaustive. Instead, this course will provide a brief introduction to decolonial theory and then move on to the original intersections of rhetoric and postcolonial theory and then the eventual move to rhetoric and decolonial theory. 

Concentrating on literacy, story, and composing the course will then explore applications of decolonial rhetorics in the areas of Indigenous rhetoric and Latina/o rhetorics. All the readings have been chosen carefully, centering Latina/o and Indigenous to North American rhetorical scholarship.

Consuelo Salas is an Assistant Professor of Border Rhetorics. As a visual rhetorician and a food studies scholar, her areas of interest include commodification and representations of Mexican and Mexican Americans to U.S. based audiences within “food spaces.” Her areas of interest also include foodways rhetoric, the scholarship of teaching and learning, information literacy, and the intersections of translanguaging and monolingual technological interfaces. Dr. Salas is at work on a book that critically explores images associated with the cultural imaginary of Mexico and their relationship to food and identity. Dr. Salas' co-edited collection Latin@s’ Presence in the Food Industry: Changing How We Think About Food, published with University of Arkansas Press, was awarded the Gourmand World Cookbook third best in the world in the category of Professionals in 2017. Her work can also be found in edited collections, such as Visual Imagery, Metadata, and Multimodal Literacies Across the Curriculum, Food Feminism and Rhetoric, as well as in peer reviewed journals, such as the Community Literacy Journal.