College of Liberal Arts The University of Texas at Austin

Lester Faigley

Faculty Position
Professor
Contact
faigley AT uts.cc.utexas.edu
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Bio / Academic Interests

Recent Publications

  • The Little Penguin Handbook. New York: Longman, 2007.
  • with Jack Selzer. Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments. New York: Longman, 2001. 3rd ed., 2007.
  • The Penguin Handbook. New York: Longman, 2003. 2nd ed., 2006.
  • The Brief Penguin Handbook. New York: Longman, 2003. 2nd ed., 2006.
  • with Jack Selzer. Good Reasons. New York: Longman, 2000. 3rd ed., 2006.
  • with Diana George, Anna Palchik, and Cynthia Selfe. Picturing Texts. New York: Norton, 2004.

Recent Articles and Chapters in Books:

  • "Literacy After the Revolution." Views from the Center: The CCCC Chairs' Addresses 1977-2005. Ed. Duane Roen. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2006. 298-312.
  • "Rhetorics Fast and Slow." Rhetorical Agendas: Political, Ethical, Spiritual. Ed. Patricia Bizzell. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2005. 3-9.
  • "The Challenge of the Multimedia Essay." Composition Studies in the New Millennium. Ed. Lynn Z. Bloom, Donald A. Daiker, and Edward M. White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2003. 174-87.
  • "Understanding Popular Digital Literacies: Metaphors for the Internet." Popular Literacies. Ed. John Trimbur. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2001. 248-63.
  • "Material Literacy and Visual Design." Rhetorical Bodies: Toward a Material Rhetoric. Ed. Jack Selzer and Sharon Crowley. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1999. 171-201.