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

    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.



    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.