Frank Farmer is professor of English at the University of Kansas and recently served as chair of the MLA Division Executive Committee on Language and Society. He is the author of Saying and Silence: Listening to Composition with Bakhtin and After the Public Turn: Composition, Counterpublics, and the Citizen BricoleurComposition, Counterpublics, and the Citizen Bricoleur (USUP) and the editor of Landmark Essays on Bakhtin, Rhetoric, and Writing (Erlbaum).
