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This book gathers together theorized narratives from academics who inhabit marginalized identity positions: non-normative genders, sexualities, and relationships; nontenured individuals; racial and ethnic minorities; academics with HIV, AIDS, or other diseases; individuals with disabilities; and more.
List of contents
Introduction:
Santosh Khadka
Joanna Davis-McElligatt
Keith Dorwick
Chapter 1:
Out of Sight: Academic Otherness and the Paradox of Visibility
Michael Borgstrom
Chapter 2:
Notes from the Dark Side: Scholars in Administration
Bridgette Coble
Sandra Mizumoto Posey
Chapter 3:
On Being the First Black Woman
Joanna Davis-McElligatt
Chapter 4:
Breaking the Silence & Removing the Garb: Revelations from a Working-Class Academic
Katelynn S. DeLuca
Chapter 5:
Othered Moods and Muses: Reflections on Rhetoric, Research, and the Mind
Lauren DiPaula
Chapter 6:
Over It/Not Over It/Getting Over It: Checking White Male Privilege In the Midst of Otherness
Keith Dorwick
Chapter 7:
The Racialised Knowledge Economy
Fataneh Farahani
Suruchi Thapar-Björkert
Chapter 8:
Strangers in a Strange Land
Elena G. Garcia
Ben G. Goodwin
Chapter 9:
To and for Whom Am I Speaking?: Reading and Teaching African American Literature Outside of the United States
Kimiko Hiranuma
Chapter 10:
From the "Third World" to a
Third World? Tales of a Nepalese Graduate Student in the USA
Madhav Kafle
Chapter 11:
Worlds Apart: A Third World Academic's Navigation of US Higher Education and Citizenship
Santosh Khadka
Chapter 12:
An Academic Imposter from the Working-Class: Emotional Labor and First-Generation College Students
Nancy Mack
Chapter 13:
An Academic from Behind the Iron Curtain
Ligia A. Mihut
Chapter 14:
Living as The Other in Japan: A Joint Autoethnography of Two Expatriate Academics in The Academy
Theron Muller
John Adamson
Chapter 15:
Unclassifiable Outsiders: Eastern European Women, Transnational Whiteness, and Solidarity
Voichita Nachescu
Chapter 16:
(In)visible Dis/abilities, Teaching Writing, and Affective Whiteness: Or, What Literally Floored Me Today
Jenn Polish
Chapter 17:
A Mottled Minority: Asian American in the Whitening Academy
John Streamas
Afterword:
Eric Anthony Grollman
About the author
Santosh Khadka is an Assistant Professor of English at California State University, Northridge, USA.
Joanna Davis-McElligatt is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA.
Keith Dorwick is a Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA.
Summary
This book gathers together theorized narratives from academics who inhabit marginalized identity positions: non-normative genders, sexualities, and relationships; nontenured individuals; racial and ethnic minorities; academics with HIV, AIDS, or other diseases; individuals with disabilities; and more.
