Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood

Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood is a collection of essays in which life writing scholars theorize their early-career, mid-career, and late-career experiences with the documents that shape their professional lives as women.

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Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle is Professor of English at The College of New Jersey. Her work appears in Life Writing, European Journal of Life Writing, Persona Studies, and a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. She was the 2021-22 Fulbright Research Chair of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alberta in Edmonton Canada. Her book, Américanas, Autocracy, and Autobiographical Innovation: Overwriting the Dictator (2020) is published with Routledge Press in its Auto/biography Studies Series. Her current project, tentatively titled Life's Work: Career Narrative as Autobiography in the North American Academy, is a study of functional forms of life writing in academic careers. She serves as Editor in Chief of a/b: Auto/biography Studies.

Klappentext

Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood is a collection of essays in which life writing scholars theorize their early-career, mid-career, and late-career experiences with the documents that shape their professional lives as women.

Zusammenfassung

Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood is a collection of essays in which life writing scholars theorize their early-career, mid-career, and late-career experiences with the documents that shape their professional lives as women: the institutional auto/biography of employment letters, curriculum vitae, tenure portfolios, promotion applications, publication and conference bios, academic website profiles, and other self-authored narratives required by institutions to compete for opportunities and resources. The essays explore the privacy laws, peer review, disciplinary standards, digital media, and other standardizing tools, practices and policies that impact women's self-construction at pivotal junctures at which they promote themselves in the spaces of academic careers.

Inhalt

Introduction: The Unlikely Autobiography of Women's Career Documentation

LISA ORTIZ-VILARELLE

1 Vitae Statistics: The Anti-Autobiographical Imperative of Academic Self-Documentation

AIMEE MORRISON

2 Docile Bodies (of Work): Coaxing the Neoliberal Academic via the Online Researcher Profile

EMMA MAGUIRE

3 Sign 'In the Space Provided': Academic Email Signatures as Sites of Narrative, Branding, and Refusal?

MAY FRIEDMAN AND JENNIFER POOLE

4 Messing with the Metrics and Setting Our Own Standards: Academic Women's Efforts to Reframe Success

ALISON L. BLACK, SANDRA ELSOM, AND VICKI SCHRIEVER

5 'Making Spreadsheets Won't Get You Tenure': Autoethnography, Women Administrative Faculty, and the Genres That Make Them (In)Visible

CANDIS BOND

6 'Not Another ARC Summer': Grant Applications and Life Narratives of Motherhood

KATE DOUGLAS

7 Academic Motherhood and the Complex Banalities of a Curriculum Vitae

LEENA KÄOSAAR

8 Getting an Academic Life: The Untranslatable, or How to Curate a Polish-Canadian CV

EVA C. KARPINSKI

9 Crossing the Lines: Using Personnel File Documents to Negotiate Embodied Space

CYNTHIA HUFF

10 How a Lifetime of Academic Administration Gave Me the Freedom to Write a Sisterlocking Academic Memoir: An Interview with Valerie Lee

VALERIE LEE WITH JULIA WATSON

11 The Poetic Cover Letter: On Crafting Paradoxical Personas

VICKI HALLETT

12 Mothers and Myths: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Account of Navigating Domestic Academic Life

VANESSA MARR AND JESS MORIARTY

13 Post-it as Praxis: Counternarrating Non-linearity and Multiplicity in Academic Lives

ELIZABETH RODRIGUES AND MARION WOLFE

14 Dossiers in Crip Time: Reclaiming a Space for Crazy in the Academy

ALLY DAY

15 The Same Self/ie: Blurring Academic, Creative, and Personal Identity through the Taking and Sharing of Self-Portraits

MARINA DELLER

16 Spilling Out of the Spaces Provided: How Occupying the Academic Office Becomes an Autobiographical Act

LAURA BEARD AND LISA ORTIZ-VILARELLE