Megan Barnes
Rhetorical Arts Instructor | Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES
University Core Curriculum
Biography
Megan Barnes earned her B.A. in English Literature from Belmont Abbey College and M.A. in English Literature from Loyola Marymount University. It was during this time as a Teaching Fellow in the English department that Megan was introduced to Rhetorical Arts; she has now been teaching this class since 2014. In 2017, she initiated a freshman writing competition that coincides with the annual Rhetorical Arts Festival. The competition results in the publication of freshman persuasive research papers in the faculty edited journal, Write Now Issues.
Megan’s academic work focuses on 18th and 19th century Oceanic Literature with an emphasis on the ways in which typified terrestrial texts utilize water spaces (such as lakes, oceans, and rivers) to comment on the fluidity of race, gender, and class at the time of their writing. She wrote a chapter focusing on Moby-Dick in an upcoming book entitled The Sea in the Literary Imagination: Global Perspectives. Megan has presented and been featured at numerous national and international literary conferences and currently working on an article length piece focusing on sovereignty rights and the question of citizenship on non-land based spaces.
