Graduate Studies in English

Ph.D. Student Profiles

Robert H Faivre

M.A. English and Creative Writing, Syracuse University
B.A. English, University of Vermont

Dissertation Title:
“Reading Today” (working title)

Research Interests:
Cultural Politics of Reading, Critique of Aesthetics, Pedagogy

Select Publications:

• “Reading Today,” an essay on the cultural politics of reading, in a forthcoming book in
  Routledge’s series on “Class and Education”
• “Alcohol is Sublime,” Nature, Society, and Thought: A Journal of Dialectical and
  Historical Materialism 17.2 (2004): 203-22
• Three chapbooks of poems and paragraphics

Select Conference Presentations:

• “Reading is a Class Act,” on panel “Class and Hegemony,” English Graduate Student Organization Conference on “Literature After Literature: 21st-Century Re-Readings,” University at Albany, SUNY, April 22, 2007
• “Merely Reading: Cultural Criticism as Erasure of Labor,” on panel “The Labor Theory
  of Culture,” Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, San Diego,
  CA, December 29, 2003
• “A Taste for Vodka: Commodity Culture and Social Class,” Culture and/as Post-Reality.
  Theory Conference, English Department, University at Albany, May 2, 2002

Select Fellowships and Awards:

• Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, SUNY, 2005
• President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching for Junior Faculty, Adirondack
  Community College, 1997

Select Teaching Experience:
Associate Professor of English at Adirondack Community College 1993-present
ENG 090: Developmental Writing
ENG 103: Writing in and about the Sciences
ENG 209: Modern Dramatic Literature
ENG 244: Introduction to Literary Studies
ENG 265: Training for Reading Tutors

rf3522@albany.edu or faivrer@sunyacc.edu