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: Teaching Composition
Going Postal
In “Going Postal,” Worsham “argue[s] that if our commitment is to real individual and social change — change that would finally dissolve the relationship between pedagogy and violence — then the work of decolonization must occur at the affective level, … Continue reading
Posted in Affect, Critical Pedagogy, Teaching Composition
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Vitanza’s concerns with cynicism
In “‘The Wasteland Grows,’” Vitanza asks what I think are some amazing questions regarding the creation of cynicism in students when we teach cultural studies. Drawing on Sloterdijk and Zizek, he wonders whether students, after instruction in cultural studies, “‘they … Continue reading
Posted in Affect, Critical Pedagogy, Teaching Composition, Victor Vitanza
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miasmic cynicism
I just read the following two articles: Langstraat, Lisa. “The Point Is There Is No Point: Miasmic Cynicism and Cultural Studies Composition.” JAC 22.2 (2002): 293-325. Crawford, Ilene. “Building a Theory of Affect in Cultural Studies Composition Pedagogy.” JAC 22.3 … Continue reading
journaling on anger, emotions, compositions
From my journal this morning: If literature and the humanities are about exploring the human condition, then teaching, learning, and writing are about becoming more human. If we are engaged in an ongoing soft revolution (Zizek), our societal changes cannot … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Social Justice, Teaching Composition
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Tompkins on Teaching
I just read Tompkins’s essay “Pedagogy of the Distressed,” which, as I read, I realized I have seen quoted and heard teachers cite quite a few times. Tompkins notes that we don’t enact what we preach (106), that really, instead … Continue reading