About Michael J. Faris
Assistant Professor of English with research areas in digital literacy, privacy and social media, and queering rhetorics.
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- 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’
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Category Archives: Feminism
Postmodern Feminism: toward a defense?
I was going to write a paper for my feminist philosophies class on “What is a Woman?” but I don’t know if I’ll really have the time to go into that topic as in-depth as I would like. It’s a … Continue reading
What is woman?
Monday, January 22: I tried postdating this, but my version of WordPress won’t allow me to show postdated blog posts, so I’ll be periodically changing this post’s date so that it is at the top and can receive feedback. For … Continue reading
pacifist and pro-choice
In honor of Blog for Choice Day, I’m posting an essay that I published in one of my zines a few years ago (2003), about how I felt it wasn’t a contradiction to be a pacifist and to be pro-choice: … Continue reading
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a pedagogy of shame
In preparation for Luke and my conference talk “Towards a Less Oppressive Social Justice Pedagogy,” I am reading Sandra Lee Bartky’s “The Pedagogy of Shame.” While Bartky is most concerned with the way we systematically shame women in classrooms, leaving … Continue reading
Posted in Affect, Critical Pedagogy, Feminism, Social Justice, Uncategorized
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on the autonomous self
I have to lead class discussion in feminist philosophies on the following article tomorrow morning: Grimshaw, Jean. “Autonomy and Identity in Feminist Thinking.“ Feminist Perspectives in Philosophy. Ed. Morwenna Griffiths and Margaret Whitford. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1988. 90-108. In … Continue reading