Chris Featherman
Chris Featherman is a Lecturer in MIT's Writing and Communication Center. He earned his Ph.D. in Language and Rhetoric from the University of Washington in Seattle. A writing and communication instructor since 2001, Chris also studies and writes about language, media, and politics in the public sphere. He is the author of an academic monograph, Discourses of Ideology and Identity: Social Media and the Iranian Election Protests (Routledge, 2015), and he has written for The Los Angeles Review of Books, New Media & Society, The London School of Economics Review of Books, Discourse Studies, Journal of Language and Politics, and elsewhere.