About Michael J. Faris
Assistant Professor of English with research areas in digital literacy, privacy and social media, and queering rhetorics.
This blog serves as a place to think through things, record thoughts, share interesting stuff, and hold conversations. Welcome!
Visit my electronic portfolio
-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Elizeth on Bersani (2010): Is the Rectum a Grave?
- Joe Schicke on Robert Brooke on ‘underlife’
- Teaching/Learning in Progress: Thinking about the “Backchannel” – Liz Ahl on Robert Brooke on ‘underlife’
- Ariane on the idea of a writing center
- Editorial Pedagogy, pt. 1: A Professional Philosophy - Hybrid Pedagogy on Miller’s “Genre as Social Action”
Currently Reading
Last.fm Recent Listens
Category Archives: Teaching Composition
prewriting and collaboration become easier online
Collin Brooke wrote about free online prewriting and brainstorming software that looked pretty cool, so I checked them out. Both of the two websites he sent readers to had to do with mapping, and I’m pretty pleased with both. The … Continue reading
on “The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change”
Lisa also suggested that I read Cushman’s article “The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change,” which I enjoyed a lot. She advocates for crossing the ivory tower/reality divide that separates universities and their work from the real life work … Continue reading
“Imagined Geographies”
In my thesis, I am arguing for the metaphor of viewing the blogosphere as the ideal city, drawing from the work of Iris Marion Young. Lisa suggested I read Reynolds’s article, and I’m really glad I did. Reynolds is concerned … Continue reading
more on gta identification
Sara photocopied this article for me on teacher’s identification for GTAs. Freyberg and Ponarin contend that teacherly identification is formed through resocialization, which “tries to ‘make up for or correct some deficiency in earlier socialization’” (140, quoting Stanton Wheeler), rather … Continue reading
notes on what is college english?
I’m reading some of the articles in the November 2006 College English, and a few things have stuck out to me so far: Miles McCrimmon writes that “A first-year composition course that asks students to read and write the widest … Continue reading