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: June 2008
the problem with engineering ethics
My friend Luke is working on his M.A. thesis in applied ethics. It’s on ethics in engineering, and while doing some web research, he came across Texas State University professor Karl Stephen‘s blog, where he argues that same-sex marriage is … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Queer issues and theory, Social Justice
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new books
Because I still have some faculty development money left over for the spring term, I get to order books! Lots of them (the category distinction below is a bit arbitrary): Rhetoric and Composition Studies: Textual Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Students … Continue reading
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blogging the iowa floods
cross-posted My friend Eric Stoller was covered in the Corvallis Gazette Times for his blogging on the floods in Iowa: Quickly, Stoller’s blog switched from site mainly focused on education and diversity issues to a repository on the latest news … Continue reading
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compulsory meat eating
Of course you can always count on secular colleges to promote absurdity. One recent workshop at the University of California Santa Cruz was entitled: Compulsory Meat-Eating and the Lesbian Vegetarian Connection. The thrust of the workshop was how eating meat … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Gender, Queer issues and theory, Vegetarianism
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ways of reading
I’m sitting in on Sara‘s Writing 323: Writing With Style course this summer because she’s heading to the WPA conference in a few weeks, and I’ll be covering the course for her for that week. Sara’s using Bartholomae and Petrosky’s … Continue reading
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