1st Edition

Productivity, Professionalism, and Parenting in Academia Rhet Comp Moms

By Christine E. Tulley Copyright 2025
292 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Drawing on time use diary analysis, this unique and detailed study fills in the larger narrative about what it takes, hour by hour, to navigate academic motherhood with a rhetoric and composition career. Looking specifically at the intersections between parenting and writing for publication in order to find out how and when writing for career-advancing tasks such as publication occur, but also... Read more

Preface 

1.         Motherhood, Academia, and Time Use: A Network of Reciprocal Relationships

2.         Time Use Study Within Higher Education and Methodology for Productivity, Professionalism, and Parenting in Academia: Rhet Comp Moms

3.         Scholarship

4.         Teaching

5.         Administration

6.         What Time Use Diaries Reveal about Rhet Comp Moms…and The Discipline

7.         Sustainable Rhet Comp Mom Scholarly Practices in a Post-Covid Era

8.         Postscript: The Timing of Children

9.         Afterword, Hannah Benefiel

10.       Appendices 

Index

Biography

Christine E. Tulley is Professor of English at the University of Findlay, USA.