Frank Farmer

Frank Farmer is a professor of English at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Saying and Silence: Listening to Composition with Bakhtin (Utah State, 2001) and editor of Landmark Essays on Bakhtin, Rhetoric, and Writing (Routledge, 1998). His most recent book, After the Public Turn (2013), explores the relationship of counterpublics to emergent forms of democratic citizenship, and how this relationship bears upon the teaching of writing.

He received his PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Louisville, and has published in several of the leading journals in the field, including College Composition and Communication, College English, JAC, Rhetoric Review, Written Communication, Rhetoric Society Quarterly and others. He has received a number of awards for his teaching, and most recently has served as chair of the Modern Language Association's Division Executive Committee on Language and Society.

He resides with his wife, Linda, in Lawrence, Kansas.