Dr. Michael J. Faris's research interests include digital rhetoric and literacy practices, feminist and queer rhetorics, composition and technical communication pedagogy, and writing program administration.

Dr. Faris is also the Co-Editor for Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.

Ph.D. Penn State University, 2012

Selected Publications

Faris, Michael J., & Holmes, Steve (Eds.). (forthcoming). Re-programmable rhetoric: Critical making theories and methods in rhetoric and composition. Utah State University Press.

Stedman, Kyle D., Courtney S. Danforth, & Michael J. Faris (Eds.). (2021). Tuning in to Soundwriting. Intermezzo/enculturation. http://intermezzo.enculturation.net/14-stedman-et-al/

Banks, William P., Michael J. Faris, Collie Fulford, Timothy Oleksiak, GPat Patterson, & Trixie G. Smith. (2020). Writing program administration: A queer symposium. WPA: Writing Program Administration, 43(2), 11–43.

Faris, Michael J. (2019). Sex education comics: Feminist and queer approaches to alternative sex education. The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, 3(1). Available at http://journalofmultimodalrhetorics.com/3-1-issue-faris

Faris, Michael J. (2019). Queering networked writing: A sensory auto-ethnography of desire and affect on Grindr. In William P. Banks, Matthew B. Cox, & Caroline Dadas (Eds.), Re/orienting writing studies: Queer methods, queer projects (pp. 127–149). Logan: Utah State University Press.

Danforth, Courtney S., Kyle D. Stedman, & Michael J. Faris (Eds.). (2018). Soundwriting pedagogies. Logan, UT: Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press. Available at http://ccdigitalpress.org/book/soundwriting/ 

Bivens, Kristin M., Lora Arduser, Candice A. Welhausen, & Michael J. Faris. (2018). A multisensory literacy approach to biomedical healthcare technologies: Aural, tactile, and visual layered health literacies. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 22(2). Available at http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/22.2/topoi/bivens-et-al/index.html

Faris, Michael J., Andrew M. Blick, Jack T. Labriola, Leslie Hankey, Jamie May, & Richard T. Mangum. (2018). Building rhetoric one bit at a time: A case of maker rhetoric with littleBits. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 22(2). Available at http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/22.2/praxis/faris-et-al/index.html

Faris, Michael J. (2018). How to be gay with locative media: The rhetorical work of Grindr as a platform. Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, 6(3). Available at http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-6/how-to-be-gay-with-locative-media-the-rhetorical-work-of-grindr-as-a-platform/

Faris, Michael J. (2017). Contextualizing students' media ideologies and practices: An empirical study of social media use in a writing class. In Stephanie Vie & Douglas Walls (Eds.), Social writing/social media: Publics, presentation, and pedagogies (pp. 283–307). Fort Collins, CO: The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado. Available at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/social/

Faris, Michael J., Sarah E. Austin, Erica Stone, & Joyce Locke Carter. (2017). Remediating the CCCC Chair's Address for video. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 22(1). Available at http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/22.1/inventio/faris-et-al/index.html

Faris, Michael J., & Kristen R. Moore. (2016). Emerging scholars and social media use: A pilot study of risk. Communication Design Quarterly, 4(2), 52–63.

Cox, Matthew B., & Michael J. Faris. (2015). An annotated bibliography of LGBTQ rhetorics. Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, 4(2). Available at http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-4/an-annotated-bibliography-of-lgbtq-rhetorics/
Reprinted (2017). In Steve Parks, Brian Bailie, Romeo Garcia, Adela Licona, Kate Novickas, & David Blakeslee (Eds.), The Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition: 2015–2016 (pp. 249–261). Anderson, SC: Parlor Press.

Faris, Michael J. (2014). Coffee shop writing in a networked age. College Composition and Communication, 66(1), 21–24.

Faris, Michael J., & Stuart A. Selber. (2013). iPads in the technical communication classroom: An empirical study of technology integration and use. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 27(4), 359–408.

Adams, Heather, Jeremy Engels, Michael J. Faris, Debra Hawhee, & Mark Hlavacik. (2012). Deliberation in the midst of crisis. Cultural Studies <==> Critical Methodologies, 12(4), 333–341.

Faris, Michael J., & Stuart A. Selber. (2011). E-book issues in composition: A partial assessment and perspective for teachers. Composition Forum, 24. Available at http://compositionforum.com/issue/24/ebook-issues.php
Reprinted in (2013). S. Parks, B. Glascott, B. Bailie, H. Christiansen, & S. White (eds.), The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals: 2011 (pp. 97–117). Anderson, SC: Parlor Press.

Other Achievements

Co-Editor, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2020–present

CCCC Executive Committee, 2015–2018

Managing Editor, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2017–2020

Associate Editor, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2016–2017

Assistant Editor, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2013–2015

Social Media Co-Coordinator, ATTW, 2013–2016

CCCC Committee on the Status of Graduate Students, 2012–2018 (Chair, 2015–2018)

Associate Professor & Acting Associate Chair
Technical Communication & Rhetoric

Email: michael.faris@ttu.edu