Narratives of Marginalized Identities in Higher Education

Santosh Khadka is an Assistant Professor of English at California State University, Northridge, USA.Joanna Davis-McElligatt is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA.Keith Dorwick is a Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA.

• Introduction:Santosh KhadkaJoanna Davis-McElligattKeith DorwickChapter 1:Out of Sight: Academic Otherness and the Paradox of VisibilityMichael BorgstromChapter 2:Notes from the Dark Side: Scholars in AdministrationBridgette Coble Sandra Mizumoto PoseyChapter 3:On Being the First Black WomanJoanna Davis-McElligattChapter 4:Breaking the Silence & Removing the Garb: Revelations from a Working-Class AcademicKatelynn S. DeLucaChapter 5:Othered Moods and Muses: Reflections on Rhetoric, Research, and the MindLauren DiPaulaChapter 6:Over It/Not Over It/Getting Over It: Checking White Male Privilege In the Midst of OthernessKeith DorwickChapter 7:The Racialised Knowledge Economy Fataneh Farahani Suruchi Thapar-BjörkertChapter 8:Strangers in a Strange LandElena G. GarciaBen G. GoodwinChapter 9:To and for Whom Am I Speaking?: Reading and Teaching African American Literature Outside of the United StatesKimiko HiranumaChapter 10:From the "Third World" to a Third World? Tales of a Nepalese Graduate Student in the USAMadhav KafleChapter 11:Worlds Apart: A Third World Academic’s Navigation of US Higher Education and CitizenshipSantosh KhadkaChapter 12:An Academic Imposter from the Working-Class: Emotional Labor and First-Generation College StudentsNancy Mack Chapter 13:An Academic from Behind the Iron CurtainLigia A. MihutChapter 14:Living as The Other in Japan: A Joint Autoethnography of Two Expatriate Academics in The AcademyTheron MullerJohn AdamsonChapter 15:Unclassifiable Outsiders: Eastern European Women, Transnational Whiteness, and SolidarityVoichita NachescuChapter 16:(In)visible Dis/abilities, Teaching Writing, and Affective Whiteness: Or, What Literally Floored Me TodayJenn PolishChapter 17:A Mottled Minority: Asian American in the Whitening AcademyJohn StreamasAfterword:Eric Anthony Grollman