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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Category Archives: Identity and Identification
the ethics and effects of parody
Chris’s comment on this post got me thinking a bit about parody, irony, and resignification. I wrote in my talk for the Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference about the claim many have made that by calling Ann Coulter a “tranny” (or … Continue reading
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
4C’s reflection: Saturday
a continuation of my previous 3 posts: Saturday: O.02 Technologies of Writing: Rhetorics of Place Jeff Rice‘s talk, “Spatial Identities: Writing Cities,“ was really engaging. He called into question the way Google Maps or MapQuest constructs our ideas of place, … Continue reading
4C’s reflection: Friday
a continuation of my previous two posts: Friday: F.06 old + old = new: Writing Multimedia, Remixing Culture, Remixing Identity Some graduate students and an undergraduate student from Michigan State shared some really interesting ideas and experiences of their own … Continue reading
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