1st Edition

Narratives of Marginalized Identities in Higher Education Inside and Outside the Academy

260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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.... Read more

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

Biography

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.