Over Ten Million Served: Gendered Service in Language and Literature Workplaces

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The first book on gender and academic service. All tenured and tenure-track faculty know the trinity of promotion and tenure criteria: research, teaching, and service. While teaching and research are relatively well-defined areas of institutional focus and evaluation, service work is rarely tabulated or analyzed as a key aspect of higher education’s political economy. Instead, service, silent and invisible, coexists with the formal, “official” economy of many institutions, just as women’s unrecognized domestic labor props up the formal, official economies of countries the world over. Over Ten Million Served explores what academic service is and investigates why this labor is often not acknowledged as “labor” by administrators or even by faculty themselves, but is instead relegated to a gendered form of institutional caregiving. By analyzing the actual labor of service, particularly for women and racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities, contributors expose the hidden economy of institutional service, challenging the feminization of service labor in the academy for both female and male academic laborers. Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Introduction......Page 16 PART 1: Service Stations......Page 36 1. Careers in Academe: Women in the “Pre-Feminist”Generation in the Academy......Page 38 2. Superserviceable Subordinates, Universal Access, and Prestige-Driven Research......Page 50 3. Superserviceable Feminism......Page 70 4. The Invisible Work of the Not-Quite-Administrator, or, Superserviceable Rhetoric and Composition......Page 88 5. Foreign Language Program Direction: Reflections on Workload, Service, and Feminization of the Profession......Page 104 6. Ten Million Serving: Undergraduate Labor, the Final Frontier......Page 118 PART 2: Non Serviam: Out of Service......Page 136 7. The Value of Desire: On Claiming Professional Service......Page 138 8. Outreach: Considering Community Service and theRole of Women of Color Faculty in Diversifying University Membership......Page 154 9. To Serve or Not to Serve: Nobler Question......Page 168 10. Not in Service......Page 178 11. Experience Required: Service, Relevance, and the Scholarship of Application......Page 186 12. Humble Service......Page 200 13. Welcome to the Land of Super-Service: A Survivor’s Guide . . . and Some Questions......Page 210 PART 3: Service Changes......Page 224 14. Service and Empowerment......Page 226 15. The Hermeneutics of Service......Page 234 16. Rewarding Work: Integrating Service into an Institutional Framework on Faculty Roles and Rewards......Page 246 17. Curb Service or Public Scholarship To Go......Page 260 18. “Pearl was shittin’ worms and I was supposed to play rang-around-the-rosie?”: An African American Woman’s Responseto the Politics of Labor......Page 276 Selected Bibliography......Page 290 Contributors......Page 296 A ......Page 302 C ......Page 303 D ......Page 304 F ......Page 305 H ......Page 306 K ......Page 307 M ......Page 308 P ......Page 309 S ......Page 310 W ......Page 312 Z ......Page 313