Educators Queering Academia: Critical Memoirs (Social Justice Across Contexts in Education)

The memoirs in this collection represent a cross-section of critical reflections by a queerly diverse set of individuals on their experiences inhabiting a variety of spaces within the field of education. In their stories, the authors share how they queered and are continuing to queer the academy in relation to questions of teaching, research, policy, and/or administration. Their memoirs speak across generations of queer educators and scholars; collectively their work highlights an array of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. As snapshots in time, the memoirs can be taken up as archive and studied in order to gain perspective on the issues facing queers in the academy across various intersections of identities related to ethnicity, culture, language, (a)gender, (a)sexuality, (dis)ability, socio-economic status, religion, age, veteran status, health status, and more. By way of the memoirs in this volume, a richer body of queer knowledge is offered that can be pulled from and infused into the academic and personal contexts of the work of educators queering academia. Book jacket Cover Table of Contents Foreword (Jen Gilbert) Acknowledgments Introduction: The Critical Praxis of Queer Memoirs in Education (sj Miller and Nelson M. Rodriguez) Part 1: Queer Paranoia: To Risk or Not to Risk Chapter One: Contingent Labor, Contingently Queer (Adam J. Greteman) Chapter Two: Queer Paranoia: Worrying About and Through a Queer Dissertation Study (Summer Pennell) Chapter Three: Reconciling the Personal and Professional: Coming Out From the Classroom Closet (Ryan Burns and Janet D. Johnson) Part 2: Queered Tensions: Beyond the Academy Chapter Four: Remaining Stubbornly Faithful: What Queering Academia Does to Queer Teacher-Scholars (Sara Staley and Bethy Leonardi) Chapter Five: Inside. Out. Queer Time in Midcareer (Michael Borgstrom) Chapter Six: How I Met Foucault: An Intellectual Career in, Around, and Near Queer Theory (Kristen A. Renn) Part 3: Queering Academic Spaces: Renarrating Lives Chapter Seven: From Doctoral Student to Dr. Sweetie Darling: My Queer(ing) Journey in Academia (Nelson M. Rodriguez) Chapter Eight: Working With and Within: Weaving Queer Spaces With Cycles of Resistance (Jenny Kassen and Alicia Lapointe) Chapter Nine: Adopting a Queer Pedagogy as a Teaching Assistant (Stephanie Anne Shelton) Chapter Ten: Sanctioning Unsanctioned Texts: The True Story of a Gay Writer (Michael Wenk) Part 4: Misrecognition: From Invisibility Into Visibility Chapter Eleven: (Un)becoming Trans*: Every Breath You Take and Every ... (sj Miller) Chapter Twelve: Queering the Inquiry Body: Critical Science Teaching From the Margins (Kerrita K. Mayfield) Chapter Thirteen: Intersectional Warrior: Battling the Onslaught of Layered Microaggressions in the Academy (Darrell Cleveland Hucks) Chapter Fourteen: Undone and (Mis)Recognized: Disorienting Experiences of a Queer, Trans* Educator (Erich N. Pitcher) Part 5: The Political Is Personal Chapter Fifteen: Slam Dunk on Tenure? Not So Fast ... (Catherine A. Lugg) Chapter Sixteen: Queering South Mississippi: Simple and Seemingly Impossible Work (Kamden K. Strunk, Douglas R. Bristol, and William C. Takewell) Chapter Seventeen: Smear the Queer: A Critical Memoir (Scotty M. Secrist) Chapter Eighteen: “I heard it from a good source”: Queer Desire and Homophobia in a South African Higher Education Institution (Thabo Msibi) Part 6: Queered All the Way Through Chapter Nineteen: A Profound Moment of Passing (David Lee Carlson) Chapter Twenty: Being Queer in Academia ←→ Queering Academia (Dana M. Stachowiak) Chapter Twenty-One: The Constant in My Life (William F. Pinar) Contributors Jen Gilbert: Foreword - Acknowledgments - sj Miller and Nelson M. Rodriguez: Introduction: The Critical Praxis of Queer Memoirs in Education - Part 1: Queer Paranoia: To Risk or Not to Risk - Adam J. Greteman: Contingent Labor, Contingently Queer - Summer Pennell: Queer Paranoia: Worrying About and Through a Queer Dissertation Study - Ryan Burns and Janet D. Johnson: Reconciling the Personal and Professional: Coming Out From the Classroom Closet - Part 2: Queered Tensions: Beyond the Academy - Sara Staley and Bethy Leonardi: Remaining Stubbornly Faithful: What Queering Academia Does to Queer Teacher-Scholars - Michael Borgstrom: Inside. Out. Queer Time in Midcareer - Kristen A. Renn: How I Met Foucault: An Intellectual Career in, Around, and Near Queer Theory - Part 3: Queering Academic Spaces: Renarrating Lives - Nelson M. Rodriguez: From Doctoral Student to Dr. Sweetie Darling: My Queer(ing) Journey in Academia - Jenny Kassen and Alicia Lapointe: Working With and Within: Weaving Queer Spaces With Cycles of Resistance - Stephanie Anne Shelton: Adopting a Queer Pedagogy as a Teaching Assistant - Michael Wenk: Sanctioning Unsanctioned Texts: The True Story of a Gay Writer - Part 4: Misrecognition: From Invisibility Into Visibility- sj Miller: (Un)becoming Trans*: Every Breath You Take and Every ... - Kerrita K. Mayfield: Queering the Inquiry Body: Critical Science Teaching From the Margins - Darrell Cleveland Hucks: Intersectional Warrior: Battling the Onslaught of Layered Microaggressions in the Academy - Erich N. Pitcher: Undone and (Mis)Recognized: Disorienting Experiences of a Queer, Trans* Educator - Part 5: The Political Is Personal - Catherine A. Lugg: Slam Dunk on Tenure? Not So Fast ... - Kamden K. Strunk, Douglas R. Bristol, and William C. Takewell: Queering South Mississippi: Simple and Seemingly Impossible Work - Scotty M. Secrist: Smear the Queer: A Critical Memoir - Thabo Msibi: "I heard it from a good source": Queer Desire and Homophobia in a South African Higher Education Institution - Part 6: Queered All the Way Through - David Lee Carlson: A Profound Moment of Passing - Dana M. Stachowiak: Being Queer in Academia?Queering Academia - William F. Pinar: The Constant in My Life - Contributors