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

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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. Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Out of Sight: Academic Otherness and the Paradox of Visibility 2 Notes From the Dark Side: Scholars in Administration 3 On Being the First Black Woman 4 Breaking the Silence and Removing the Garb: Revelations From a Working-Class Academic 5 Othered Moods and Muses: Reflections on Rhetoric, Research, and the Mind 6 Over It/Not Over It/Getting Over It: Checking White Male Privilege in the Midst of Otherness 7 The Racialised Knowledge Economy 8 Strangers in a Strange Land 9 To and for Whom Am I Speaking?: Reading and Teaching African-American Literature Outside of the United States 10 From the “Third World” to a Third World? Tales of a Nepalese Graduate Student in the USA 11 Worlds Apart: A Third World Academic’s Navigation of US Higher Education and Citizenship 12 An Academic Imposter From the Working Class: Emotional Labor and First-Generation College Students 13 An Academic From Behind the Iron Curtain 14 Living as the Other in Japan: A Joint Autoethnography of Two Expatriate Academics in the Academy 15 Unclassifiable Outsiders: Eastern European Women, Transnational Whiteness, and Solidarity 16 (In)visible Dis/abilities, Teaching Writing, and Affective Whiteness: Or, What Literally Floored Me Today 17 A Mottled Minority: Asian-American in the Whitening Academy Afterword Contributors’ Biographies Index