Carol-Ann Farkas, PhD
Professor of English, Director of Writing Programs
School
School of Arts and Sciences
Department
School of Arts and Sciences
Office Location
Fennell 222
Boston
Office Phone Office Phone: 617.732.2852
About
Education
- PhD, English, University of Alberta, Edmonton Alberta, Canada
- BA and MA, English, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby British Columbia, Canada
Research Interests
- 19th Century British Fiction, esp. to do with women doctors
- Expert and Non-Expert Knowledge
- Feminism
- Health Humanities
- Popular Culture, primarily representations of women's health, fitness, and strength
- Wellness and Contemporary Popular Culture
- Writing Center Theory and Practice
Featured Affiliations
Northeast Victorian Studies Association
Popular Culture Association
International Writing Center Association
Education
- PhD, English, University of Alberta, Edmonton Alberta, Canada
- BA and MA, English, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby British Columbia, Canada
Research Interests
- 19th Century British Fiction, esp. to do with women doctors
- Expert and Non-Expert Knowledge
- Feminism
- Health Humanities
- Popular Culture, primarily representations of women's health, fitness, and strength
- Wellness and Contemporary Popular Culture
- Writing Center Theory and Practice
Awards and Honors
- Farkas, CA. Well, or Weak?: The Construction of Knowledge, Agency, and Competence in Womenns Wellness Magazines." Forthcoming in anthology from Cambridge Scholars Press, edited by Margaret Wiley.
- Bodies at Rest, Bodies in Motion: Womenns Fitness and Physical Competence.. Genders Online. (Spring 2007).
- The Woman Athlete Revealed: The Problem of Get-Ups and Glitter for Female Olympians.. Popular Culture Review. 18.1 (Winter 2007): 49-60.
- Rev. of Walt Disney: Conversations. Ed. Kathy Merlock Jackson. Journal of Popular Culture. 39.6 (December 2006): 1094-96.
- Rev. of Chick-Lit: The New Womanns Fiction. Eds. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. Journal of Popular Culture. 39.5 (October 2006): 902-903.
- Rev. of Pictures of Girlhood: Modern Female Adolescence on Film. Sarah Hentges. Journal of Popular Culture. 39.4 (August 2006): 680-82.
- "Idle Assumptions Are the Devills Plaything: The Writing Center, the Comp Faculty and the Reality Check." Writing Lab Newsletter. 30.7 (March 2006): 1-5.
- Rev. of Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America by Sarah K. Fields. Journal of American Culture, 28.3 (September 2005): 319-20.
"Writing Back to the Writing Exam: Can Writing Centers Teach and Test Without Trauma?" Writing Lab Newsletter 29.2 (October 2004): 6-8. - "Beauty is as Beauty Does: Action and Appearance in Brontt and Eliot." Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction.
- Eds. Stanley Friedman, Edward Guiliano, and Michael Timko. Vol. 29. New York: AMS Press, 2000: 323-349.
More Affiliations
- National Council of Teachers of English
- New England Writing Center Association
- Modern Language Association
- MCPHS Writing Proficiency Exam Committee (Chair)
- MCPHS First-Year Composition Faculty Committee (Chair)
- MCPHS First-Year Summer Reading Committee
- MCPHS Student Conduct Code Review Task Force
- MCPHS Academic Standing Committee
- MCPHS Faculty Council
- Oral and Written Communication Working Group