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?
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- Teaching/Learning in Progress: Thinking about the “Backchannel” – Liz Ahl on Robert Brooke on ‘underlife’
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Category Archives: Independent Study Gender and Culture (English 502 – Fal
Butler Lite: Half the Esoterica, All the Flavor
Yesterday my friend Luke and I discussed “Femininity Slashed: Suffragette Militancy, Modernism and Gender” by Caroline Howlett. Before he read it, I told him it’s not as hard to follow as Judith Butler (whose “Critically Queer” we had discussed the … Continue reading
critically queer
I’m re-reading some work from our Gender and Culture Colloquium last fall in order to prepare for my talk at the Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) conference coming up (egads! a month away) and to talk to my colleague and friend Luke … Continue reading
slashing and composition
I’ve been thinking a bit about my thesis recently, and putting Sirc (art) and Bartholomae (criticism) into concert with each other. For our gender and cultural studies independent study reading seminar, we are reading “Feminity Slashed” by Caroline Howlett, and … Continue reading