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Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood is a collection of essays in which life writing scholars theorize their early-career, mid-career, and late-career experiences with the documents that shape their professional lives as women.
List of contents
Introduction: The Unlikely Autobiography of Women's Career Documentation
LISA ORTIZ-VILARELLE
1 Vitae Statistics: The Anti-Autobiographical Imperative of Academic Self-Documentation
AIMEE MORRISON
2 Docile Bodies (of Work): Coaxing the Neoliberal Academic via the Online Researcher Profile
EMMA MAGUIRE
3 Sign 'In the Space Provided': Academic Email Signatures as Sites of Narrative, Branding, and Refusal?
MAY FRIEDMAN AND JENNIFER POOLE
4 Messing with the Metrics and Setting Our Own Standards: Academic Women's Efforts to Reframe Success
ALISON L. BLACK, SANDRA ELSOM, AND VICKI SCHRIEVER
5 'Making Spreadsheets Won't Get You Tenure': Autoethnography, Women Administrative Faculty, and the Genres That Make Them (In)Visible
CANDIS BOND
6 'Not Another ARC Summer': Grant Applications and Life Narratives of Motherhood
KATE DOUGLAS
7 Academic Motherhood and the Complex Banalities of a Curriculum Vitae
LEENA KÄOSAAR
8 Getting an Academic Life: The Untranslatable, or How to Curate a Polish-Canadian CV
EVA C. KARPINSKI
9 Crossing the Lines: Using Personnel File Documents to Negotiate Embodied Space
CYNTHIA HUFF
10 How a Lifetime of Academic Administration Gave Me the Freedom to Write a Sisterlocking Academic Memoir: An Interview with Valerie Lee
VALERIE LEE WITH JULIA WATSON
11 The Poetic Cover Letter: On Crafting Paradoxical Personas
VICKI HALLETT
12 Mothers and Myths: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Account of Navigating Domestic Academic Life
VANESSA MARR AND JESS MORIARTY
13 Post-it as Praxis: Counternarrating Non-linearity and Multiplicity in Academic Lives
ELIZABETH RODRIGUES AND MARION WOLFE
14 Dossiers in Crip Time: Reclaiming a Space for Crazy in the Academy
ALLY DAY
15 The Same Self/ie: Blurring Academic, Creative, and Personal Identity through the Taking and Sharing of Self-Portraits
MARINA DELLER
16 Spilling Out of the Spaces Provided: How Occupying the Academic Office Becomes an Autobiographical Act
LAURA BEARD AND LISA ORTIZ-VILARELLE
About the author
Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle is Professor of English at The College of New Jersey. Her work appears in
Life Writing,
European Journal of Life Writing,
Persona Studies, and
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. She was the 2021-22 Fulbright Research Chair of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alberta in Edmonton Canada. Her book,
Américanas, Autocracy, and Autobiographical Innovation: Overwriting the Dictator (2020) is published with Routledge Press in its Auto/biography Studies Series. Her current project, tentatively titled
Life's Work: Career Narrative as Autobiography in the North American Academy, is a study of functional forms of life writing in academic careers. She serves as Editor in Chief of
a/b: Auto/biography Studies.
