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: November 2006
Fulton on poetry:
I’m reading a draft of a colleague’s paper, and she quotes Alice Fulton from an interview. I thought it was pretty cool, so I’m quoting it here. Fulton is discussing her use the of the double equals sign (= =): … Continue reading
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social studies ed starts up again at alma mater
So, my undergraduate institute is starting up their social studies education program again, according to the alumni/ae newsletter I just got in the mail from the ISU History department. I was one of the last to graduate in with a … Continue reading
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Lunsford on “The Nature of Composition Studies”
I stumbled upon Erika Lindemann and Gary Tate’s (editors) An Introduction to Composition Studies while surfing through the shelves of the library (is surfing the right metaphor?). In “The Nature of Composition Studies,” Andrea Lunsford writes: Thus composition studies views … Continue reading
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philosophy digest #8
here is the reading digest I’ll turn in for critical social theory on Tuesday: Wednesday night, after a short week of classes before Thanksgiving, I sat in Bombs Away, one of my favorite bars to sit and chat with others … Continue reading
philosophy digest #7
here is the reading digest I turned in for philosophy class last week: Habermas, Jürgen. “The Crisis of the Welfare State and the Exhaustion of Utopian Energies.“ Translated by Thomas McCarthy. Hames-GarcÃÂa, Michael. “Can Queer Theory Be Critical Theory?“ in … Continue reading