About Michael J. Faris
I study rhetoric and composition as a PhD student in the English Department at Penn State University.
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Monthly Archives: September 2006
this makes me giggle
I’m reading Oscar Wilde’s “The Critic as Artist” (finally, after many people telling me I should), and the following few lines make me giggle: Ernest, you are quite delightful, but your views are terribly unsound. I am afraid you have … Continue reading
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working class and the classroom
Like Donna LeCourt, and many other academics, I grew up pretty working class. My dad helps Grandpa run the family farm — in the family for 103 years now, I believe — while also taking on three part-time jobs. Mom … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Social Justice, Teaching Composition
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Ekphrastic poetry
Both College English and English Journal came in the mail this week. I’ll admit to, in the past, ignoring my editions of English Journal because I’ve been so busy, but I’m gonna try to find what’s interesting in it right … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
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school starting up
School starts up in nine days. I’m a little nervous, but pretty excited. I have a lot on my plate, as you might have gathered from a previous post. I still, a year after starting my program, don’t have a … Continue reading
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don’t look now but i’m reading more geoffrey sirc
Sometimes it seems like Sirc is the only stuff I can stomach. When everything else is ringing of the ridiculous — saying the same thing over and over again only with a new terminology or with a slightly different slant … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Composition
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