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Christine R. Farris (Email; phone 812-855-1430)
Professor
Director, Composition Program
PhD: University of Washington, 1987

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Composition and literacy studies; writing in the disciplines; institutional politics

PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS
Books:
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Integrating Literature and Writing Instruction: First-Year English, Humanities Core Courses, Seminars. Ed. Judith H. Anderson and Christine R. Farris, New York: Modern Language Association (MLA), 2007.

 

Under Construction: Working at the Intersections of Composition Theory, Research and Practice co-edited with Chris M. Anson (Utah State University Press, 1998).

 

Subject to Change: New Composition Instructors' Theory and Practice (Hampton Press, 1996).

Selected List of Articles and Chapters:
"Crash Course: Race, Class, and Context," College English 69:4, March, 2007, 354-359.

"The Space Between: Dual-Credit Programs as Brokering, Community-Building, and Professionalization," chapter in Delivering College Composition: The Fifth Canon. Ed. Kathleen Blake Yancey, Heinemann/Boynton/Cook, 2006, 104-114.

"Stars, Apprentices, and the Scholar-Teacher Split," Academe 19.5 (September/October 2005): 19-21.

"Teaching the Teaching of Literature," (with Mary Favret) Peer Review: Journal of the Association of American Colleges and Universitites: 6.3 (Spring 2004): 16-18.

"Where Rhetoric Meets the Road: First-Year Composition," Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture: 5.1, (Fall, 2003).

"No Discipline?: Composition's Professional Identity Crisis," Composition Studies in the New Millenium: Rereading the Past, Rewriting the Future. Ed. Lynn Z. Bloom, Donald A. Daiker, and Edward M. White. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2003, 57-61.

"Too Cool for School?: Composition as Cultural Studies and Reflective Practice," Preparing College Teachers of Writing: Histories, Theories, Programs, and Practices. Ed. Liggett and Pytlik, Oxford University Press, 2001.

Conference papers presented at MLA, M/MLA, ADE, CCCC, NCTE, WPA, Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference.

PARTIAL LIST OF AWARDS
President's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Indiana University, 1998.
Provost's Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award, University of Missouri, 1990.