Papa, PhD : essays on fatherhood by men in the academy / / edited by Mary Ruth Marotte, Paige Martin Reynolds, and Ralph James Savarese.
A collection of personal essays from men who wrestle with what it means to be a father in academia today. Organized in three sections, the stories of the contributors depict not merely a balancing act of parenting, teaching, and writing, but also the revelatory collision and occasional fusion of com...
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 240 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Disney dad / Amitava Kumar
- Gaining a daughter: a father's transgendered tale / Lennard J. Davis
- Gifts from the sea / David G. Campbell
- The luck of the irish / F.D. Reeve
- Shifting the tectonic plates of academia / Jerald Walker
- Hair-raising experiences / John W. Wells
- A river runs through it: queer theory and fatherhood / Joseph Gelfer
- On writing and rearing / David Blake
- How to do things with words / Ira L. Strauber
- On fecundity, fidelity, and expectation: reflections on philosophy and fatherhood / J. Aaron Simmons
- Sheathing the sword / Gregory Orfalea
- Weighed but found wanting: ten years of being measured and divided / Robert Mayer
- Vespers, matins, and lauds: the life of a liberal arts college professor / Ralph James Savarese
- How white was my prairie / Mark Montgomery
- Meniscus / Robert Gray
- Once was lost / John Bryant
- Shared attention: hearing Cameron's voice / Mark Osteen
- Accidental academic, deliberate dad / Kevin G. Barnhurst
- Late fatherhood among the baptists / Andrew Hazucha
- Being a dad, studying fathers: personal reflections / William Marsiglio
- Single dad in academia: fatherhood and the redemption of scholarship / Eric H. du Plessis
- Superheroes / Stanford W. Carpenter
- Maybe it is just math: fatherhood and disease in academia / Jason Thompson
- Dreaming of direction: reconciling fatherhood and ambition / Mike Augsperger
- Making a home for family and scholarship / Ting Man Tsao
- Change is here, but we need to talk about it: reflections on black fatherhood in the academy / Jeffrey B. Leak
- Vocabularies and their subversion: a reminiscence / John Domini
- Balancing diapers and a doctorate: the adventures of a single dad in grad school / Charles Bane
- It's a chapter-book, huh: teaching, writing, and early fatherhood / Alex Vernon
- Pitcher this: an academic dad's award-winning attempt to be in two places at once / Colin Irvine
- Odd quirks / Christopher Gabbard
- The precarious private life of professor father fiction chef and other possible poignancies / Gary McCullough.