Qualitative Research Network

Wednesday April 3, 2024, 1:00 – 5:00 PM PST

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The initial hour of the workshop will feature Dr. Michael J. Faris, Associate Professor of English and Department Chair at Texas Tech University, where he teaches undergraduate courses on post-truth rhetoric and graduate courses on digital literacies and rhetoric, technical communication, writing pedagogy, and queer and feminist rhetorics. Michael has published on digital rhetorics and literacies, queer rhetorical theory, and writing program administration in a variety of journals and edited collections in the field.

His collection Reprogrammable Rhetoric: Critical Making Theories and Methods in Rhetoric and Writing (Utah State UP, 2022, co-edited with Steve Holmes) won the 2022-2023 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award. He has published a trilogy of edited collections, in collaboration with Courtney Danforth and Kyle Stedman, on teaching and learning with sound in writing classes: Soundwriting Pedagogies (Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2018), Tuning in to Soundwriting (Intermezzo, 2021), and Amplifying Soundwriting Pedagogies (WAC Clearinghouse, 2022). Michael’s work is animated by questions related to challenging normative practices, improving pedagogical and institutional working conditions, and rethinking the ways we normally “do” things in our classes, our publishing venues, our institutions, and our political and social lives.

2024 QRN Schedule (DRAFT)

1:30 – 1:40    Welcome

1:40 – 2:40     Keynote Presentation

Promiscuous Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Dr. Michael Faris, Texas Tech University

This talk argues that what the field of rhetoric and writing studies could use more of is promiscuity. Drawing on queer thinking across disciplines, this talk suggests that we might best understand promiscuity as an ethic—or a mode of ascesis—that involves work, openness, imagination, transdisciplinarity, serendipity, and worldbuilding. Promiscuity is typically denigrated, shamed, and outright rejected as an inability to control oneself, but this talk argues that it is a form of ascesis—or self-discipline—that provides a useful model for thinking through academic practices and the discipline. This talk argues for theoretical and methodological promiscuity in rhetoric and writing studies, and suggests that promiscuity might be an ascetic practice useful for thinking about graduate education in the field and for confronting neoliberal pressures on academic publishing.

2:40 – 3:00    Break

3:00 – 5:00     Research Roundtables and Works-in-Progress Discussions

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2024 QRN Program (Google Docs link)

Facilitator Instructions

Presenter Instructions

2024 CCCC Accessibility Guide (GDoc link)

Getting Ready for CCCC 2024 (GDoc link)

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