Full Description
This book features theorized narratives from academics who inhabit marginalized identity positions, including, among others, academics with non-normative genders, sexualities, and relationships; nontenured faculty; racial and ethnic minorities; scholars with HIV, depression and anxiety, and other disabilities; immigrants and international students; and poor and working-class faculty and students. The chapters in this volume explore the ways in which marginalized identities fundamentally shape and impact the academic experience; thus, the contributors in this collection demonstrate how academic outsiderism works both within the confines of their college or university systems, and a broader matrix of community, state, and international relations. With an emphasis on the inherent intersectionality of identity positions, this book addresses the broad matrix of ways academics navigate their particular locations as marginalized subjects.
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
