He has published about social media and mobile devices in the Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Composition Forum, College Composition and Communication, and Communication Design Quarterly. He is an associate editor of Kairos and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on publications management and new media as well as directs the Media Lab in Texas Tech’s English Department. For the editor workshops, Faris draws on his expertise with scholarly and multimodal editing to help facilitate workshops on developmental and design-level editing.