Marlena B. Stanford - Assistant Professor, English The Distinguished Faculty Lecturer is a recognition of quality work by one of Salt Lake Community College’s full-time faculty, and a charge to develop that work over an academic year into a public presentation. A committee chosen by the associate provost for Learning Advancement selects the faculty lecturer each year. The lecture takes place in spring. Marlena B. Stanford teaches students to see the writer in themselves. Some students take that lesson to a higher level. Stanford fondly recalls the immense satisfaction that came with teaching a “gifted rhetorician,” a student for who English was a second language. In course after course, Stanford watched the woman build confidence and gain versatility in her classroom as a speaker and writer. Stanford's faculty lecture will explore, as a literate-rhetorical practice, the birthing stories of 10 local women. A...