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!
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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’
- Ariane on the idea of a writing center
- Editorial Pedagogy, pt. 1: A Professional Philosophy - Hybrid Pedagogy on Miller’s “Genre as Social Action”
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Category Archives: Gender
notes from the interblags: the I’m off to Europe edition
I have to clean out a few tabs before heading off for vacation. I leave in 40 minutes for San Francisco, and then tomorrow I’m flying to Europe! I can hardly believe it; I’ve never been, so this should be … Continue reading
notes from the interblags: the ridiculous amount of links edition
It’s that time again: I have to clear out my bloglines account some. Some interesting reads I want to remember and link others to: • Related to my Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Talk on the way people talk about Ann Coulter, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Education, Gender, Notes from the Interblags
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Ann Coulter, the Liberal Blogosphere, and the (Straight, Liberal) Male Bond
Here is my talk from The Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference last week. I’ll put the abstract here and the talk below the cut. I also added links within the text to blogs I discuss. To forefront on concern of mine … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Blogs, Feminism, Gender, Internet culture, Presentations, publics, Queer issues and theory
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queer in little rock; or, composing bodies
Scene 1: Sarah, Luke, and I have been in Little Rock for only a few hours Wednesday night and decide to see what the city’s like. With the help of Google, we find a piano bar that seems kind of … Continue reading
notes from the interblags, talk like a pirate day edition
It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day, but I refuse to celebrate (while it is fun, I feel somewhat uneasy about the whole concept, for reasons I can’t quite explain yet). Here’s some interesting stuff I want to catalogue/share: • Sometime … Continue reading
Posted in Affect, Gender, Internet culture, publics, Visual Rhetoric
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