Educators Queering Academia

sj Miller is Deputy Director of Educational Equity Supports and Services at the Metro Center of NYU and Associate Professor of Literacy Studies at CU Boulder. sj is a committee member, consultant, advisory board member, mentor, co-editor, and co-chair of numerous organizations, committees, and publications. sj is the recipient of numerous awards with works appearing in a number of journals.Nelson M. Rodriguez teaches sexuality and queer studies in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at The College of New Jersey. His research areas span queer studies and education, critical masculinity studies, and Foucault studies. His most recent publications are Queer Masculinities: A Critical Reader in Education and Queering Straight Teachers: Discourse and Identity in Education.

• 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