Dr. Michael J. Faris Department Chair; Professor - Technical Communication & Rhetoric

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.

Ph.D., Penn State University, 2012

Selected Publications: Edited Collections

Faris, Michael J., Courtney S. Danforth, & Kyle D. Stedman (Eds.). (2022). Amplifying soundwriting pedagogies: Integrating sound into rhetoric and writing. WAC Clearinghouse. DOI: 10.37514/PRA-B.2022.1688

Faris, Michael J., & Holmes, Steve (Eds.). (2022). 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.

Danforth, Courtney S., Kyle D. Stedman, & Michael J. Faris (Eds.). (2018). Soundwriting pedagogies. Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press.

Selected Publications: Articles and Book Chapters

Faris, Michael J. (2025). Inflationary consent: Subjectivity in the age of consent. College English, 88(2), 147-163. DOI: 10.58680/ce2025882147

Faris, Michael J. (2025). Queer ethics. In Derek G. Ross (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of ethics in technical and professional communication (pp. 163–171). Routledge.

Lawson, Josephine, & Michael J. Faris. (2024). Ecologies, bodies, and OWI teacher preparation: Reflecting on a practicum for graduate instructors teaching writing online. Computers and Composition, 74. DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102881

Das, Meghalee, & Michael J. Faris. (2024). Peer review in online, real-time learning environments. In Amy Cicchino & Troy Hicks (Eds.), Better Practices: Exploring the Teaching of Writing in Online and Hybrid Spaces (pp. 71–92). The WAC Clearinghouse.

Faris, Michael J., Michelle Flahive, Elizabeth Hughes Karnes, & Callie F. Kostelich. (2023). Piloting a language autoethnography in a first-year writing program: A study of five multilingual student writers. Open Words: Access and English Studies, 15(1), 118–142. DOI: 10.37514/OPW-J.2023.15.1.06

Faris, Michael J. (2022). The circulation of embodied affects in a revision of a first-year writing program. In Anna Sicari & Melissa Nicolas (Eds.), Our body of work: Teaching and administration in writing studies (pp. 169–183). Utah State University Press.

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).

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). Utah State University Press.

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).

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).

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). The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado. DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2017.0063.2.15

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.

Faris, Michael J., & Stuart A. Selber. (2011). E-book issues in composition: A partial assessment and perspective for teachers. Composition Forum, 24.