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: publics
584: Weekly Position Paper #2: The Scholar as Public Intellectual
One central issue that recurs throughout the collection Calling Cards is the issue of navigating multiple discourse communities — middle class professoriate, working class white communities, African American communities that are distrustful of edumacation, and more. While the authors of … Continue reading
compositionists as public intellectuals
A while ago I commented at The Blogora that it seems that the positive press about composition and student writing always comes in the form of newspaper articles written by reporters about the classroom, but negative press always seems to … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, publics, Teaching Composition
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a genealogy of american anti-intellectualism
I’m enjoying sitting in on Sara’s Writing 323 class this summer, and I’m looking forward to covering it next week. The students today had an interesting discussion about anti-intellectualism. Sara asked why US Americans have such a distaste for public … Continue reading
Posted in publics, WR323: Writing With Style
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the secular society vs. the post-secular society
This 2006 video of Barack Obama’s speech (video below) is interested to read in juxtaposition to Jürgen Habermas’s recent essay on sightandsound, Notes on a Post-Secular Society. If you are interested in a response to this video from Focus on … Continue reading
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the rhetorics of diversity
Victor Villaneuva has a post over at the CCCC blog titled Rhetorics of Racism. It’s a great read, critiquing rhetoric used around racism, drawing on Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s four tropes of racism (abstract liberalism, naturalization, cultural racism/biologicization of racism, and minimization), … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, publics, Race, WS399: LGBT Studies
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