Center Events: Speaker Series
Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori (University of
Pittsburgh)
Teaching,' 'Scholarly Teaching,' 'Scholarship of Teaching and Learning':
What do they (not) have in common?
April 29, 2003
Mariolina Salvatori teaches and does research in the areas
of hermeneutics, composition, literacy, and pedagogy. She is particularly
interested in exploring the transactions of knowledge, and the relations
between teachers, students, and texts that different theories of reading
make possible. Her publications include: "Pedagogy: From the Periphery to
the Center"; "On Behalf of Pedagogy"; "If on a winter's night a traveler:
Writer's Authority/Reader's Autonomy"; "The Teaching of Teaching:
Theoretical Reflections"; Pedagogy 1819-1929: Disturbing History (University
of Pittsburgh Press,1996); "Conversations with Texts." "Difficulty: The
Great Educational Divide" (Opening Lines: Approaches to the Scholarship of
Teaching and Learning, Carnegie Publications 2000). For those of you
interested in her work, you might like to check
http://www.pitt.edu/~marsa/.
Disturbing Pedagogy and Opening Lines are both available from the Center's
library for overnight checkout.