Dr. Mariolina Salvatori

Associate Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh
Editor, Reader

CV and Publications

Office: 617S Cathedral of Learning
Office Hours: By Appointment
Phone: (412) 624-6561
Email: marsa@pitt.edu or mrizzi@earthlink.net


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).
• "Mexican Ex-votos' Iconographic Literacy" (Popular Literacy: Studies in Cultural Practices and Poetics, ed. John Trimbur)