Melanie Jones is a faculty member at Bard College in the Bard Prison Initiative program. She has a PhD in comparative literature, and her work has appeared in such journals as the Victorian Review.Shayda Kafai is assistant professor of ethnic and women’s studies at California State Polytechnic University. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Lesbian Studies and Women’s Studies Quarterly.

• Introduction: Naming Ourselves MadPart One. Mad Pathways, Mad Exits1. Don't Call it "Mental Health" - A Discussion on disability Euphemisms and Disability Community2. My PhD Drove Me Crazy (but I Was Already Mad)3. Complaint as a Maddening Practice (Moving through the University as a Mad Grad Student)4. Rest as Feminist Disability Praxis, or How to Write While Flaring, Depressed, and totally Burned Out5. Diary of a Mad Black Woman in the AcademyPart Two. Researching the Self6. I'm Too Crazy for a Job - Thoroughbreds, Fuckups, and Autistic, Mad, Disabled, Femme Grassroots Intellectual-Freedom Portals7. Embrace the Lie - Seeking Truths through Reading, madly8. The Madmotherscholar in Academia and Beyond9. In-Cite - The Mad Possibility of Interethnography10. The Subject is MadPart Three. Disclosure and Disruptive Pedagogies11. Mad Lyrics - Toward an Embodied, Community-Responsive Pedagogy of Care in Academia12. Mad Pedagogy in Disabling Academia13. Teaching for Mad Liberation: Crip Dreaming toward a Transformative Pedagogy of Madness14. Learning and teaching Bad as Resistance: Queer Crip Pilpinx Bad Pedagogy15. "The Deadly Space Between" Toward and Mad Pedagogy and Mad Methodology16. Crazy Femme Pedagogies: Toward an ArchivePart Four. Mad Imaginaries, from Kinship to Community17. Mad Resilience, Mad Kinship: Alternative Responses to Student Mental Health Crises18. Anchoring in Mad Solidarity19 Mad Laughter: On Finding and Forming Graduate Communities through Memes20. On Mad Advantage, Redux: Covering, Passing, Negotiating (in) Higher Education21. Landing without Failing: The Fucking Blue Dots22. Orienting toward Togetherness: A Mad Phenomenology

Mad Scholars critiques academic culture’s entrenched ableism and sanism and shows how difficult—still—it is to be recognized as having a positive, credible, valuable Mad subjectivity. The diverse voices in this book give us pathways for leading with care, both for ourselves and others. They reimagine academia. They tell us that our institutions can do better. This is a collection we need." — (Elizabeth Brewer, Central Connecticut State University)