Farwell Research

Research Overview

Tricia M. Farwell is an Americanist who researches gender and representation in works of media (digital and traditional) and literature (1899-1936).

Publications include:

Books, Single Author
Farwell, Tricia M. Love and Death in the Fiction of Edith Wharton. Peter Lang Publishing. March 2006.

Book Chapters
Kruger-Ross, M. J. & Farwell, T. M. (2013). “Risky Media: Using Subversive Technologies in Education to Question Assumptions about Power, Teaching and Assessment.” In M. Patrut & B Patrut, (Ed), Social Media in Higher Education: Teaching in Web 2.0 (pp. 286-304), IGI Global.
Farwell, T. M. & Kruger-Ross, M. (2013). “Is there (Still) a place for Blogging in the Classroom? Using Blogging to Assess Writing, Facilitate Engagement and Evaluate Student Attitudes.” Using Social Media in the Classroom. Ed. K. Seo. Routledge. pp. 207-221.

Kruger-Ross, M, Waters, R. D. & Farwell, T. M. (2013). “Everyone’s all-a-Twitter about Twitter: Three Operational Perspectives on Using Twitter in the Classroom.” Using Social Media in the Classroom. Ed. K. Seo. Routledge. pp. 117-131.

Farwell, T. M., & Waters, R. D. “Introducing Students to Micro-blogging through Collaborative Work: Using Twitter to Promote Cross-University Relationships and discussions.” Teaching Arts and Science Using the New Social Media. Ed. Charles Wankel. (2011). pp. 297-319.

Bramlett-Solomon, S. & Farwell, T. M. (1996). "Sex on the Soaps: An Analysis of Black, White and Interracial Couple Intimacy." Mediated Messages and African-American Culture. Eds. Venise T. Berry and Carmen L. Manning-Miller. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. pp. 146-158.

Bramlett-Solomon, S. & Farwell, T. M. (1997). "Sex on the Soaps: An Analysis of Black, White and Interracial Couple Intimacy." Facing Difference: Race, Gender and Mass Media. Eds. Shirley Biagi and Marilyn Kern-Foxworth. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press. pp. 3-10.

Peer-Reviewed Academic Journal Publications

Farwell, T. M., Alligood, L., Fitzgerald, S. & Blake, K. (2016). “Assessing Assessment: Evaluating Outcomes and Reliabilities of Grammar, Math and Writing Measures in Media Writing.” Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 17(1), 28-49. Online first access (2014): http://jmc.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/09/25/1077695814551829.abstract

Farwell, T. M. & Tindall, N. (2014, Fall). “Making the ROPE process real: Using time cards to analyze student knowledge and implementation of the ROPE process in the public relations campaign class.” Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication. http://aejmc.us/spig/2014/making-the-rope-process-real/

Farwell, T. M. & Waters, R. D. (2010). Introducing students to organizational communication strategies on Twitter. Journal of Advertising Education, 14(2), 52-53.

Farwell, T. M., & Waters, R. D. (2010). Exploring the use of social bookmarking technology in education: An analysis of students’ experiences using a course-specific Delicious.com account. MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 6(2), 398-408.

Research Highlight 1: Edith Wharton as War reporter

This area of research covers the intersection of Wharton's non-fiction war writing and the media coverage of WWI. WWI saw changes in war reporting as the military sought to control the war narrative. To gain access, reporters had to be credentialed, yet just being sent to war by a newspaper did not guarantee credentials or access. Edith Wharton helped in the war effort through aid efforts including delivering supplies to the front. She focused on delivering supplies as much as finding newsworthy nonfiction topics for Scribner’s Magazine. Wharton’s war “propaganda” and style in the nonfiction works has been problematic for some. By examining Wharton’s war writings in the context of female reporters, it is clear that Wharton contended with problems women reporters faced in navigating between facts and emotion in war writing. Farwell explores Wharton’s non-fiction war writing in the context of professional female reporters and argues that Wharton may have helped open doors, albeit maybe unintentionally, for women reporters to expand beyond the women’s pages.

Farwell currently has a chapter under review regarding teaching this topic

Research Highlight 2: Online communities

Farwell is currently researching the role of online communities in craftivism. Specifically, Farwell is exploring claims of racism in the knitting community and mobilization of knitters in support of change.