Resilience

Kenneth Oldfield is Professor Emeritus of Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Richard Greggory Johnson III is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Vermont.

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS1. IntroductionKenneth Wendell Oldfield and Richard Greggory Johnson III 2. Class, Sexuality, and AcademiaAndrea R. Lehrermeier3. Middle-Class DragRenny Christopher4. From the Altar Boy’s Robes to the Professor’s Cap and Gown: The Journey of a Gay, Working-Class AcademicTimothy J. Quain5. One in Ten: Teaching Tolerance for Class Difference, Ambiguity, and Queerness in the Culture ClassroomDenis M. Provencher6. Flying the Coop: Liberation through LearningNancy Ciucevich Story7. No More Rented RoomsBonnie R. Strickland8. Escape from the Bronx: The Making of an Unlikely LeaderRichard Greggory Johnson III9. My First Closet Was the Class ClosetFelice Yeskel10. One Bad Lecture Away from Guarding a Bank: Identity as a ProcessMichallene McDaniel 11. Becoming (Almost) One of Those "Damn, New York, Pinko Intellectuals"Donald C. Barrett12. Weaving the Self with Gender: Uniting Race, Sexual Orientation, and Social ClassTerell P. Lasane13. PossibilitiesAngelia R. Wilson14. Hate Is Not a Family ValueSusan E. BorregoLIST OF CONTRIBUTORSINDEX

"By addressing two outsider statuses, queer and working class, within higher education, Resilience makes a contribution to a number of academic areas, such as higher education, queer studies, and class studies, and a variety of audiences, including policy-makers, administrators, faculty, counselors, and students." — H-Net Reviews"The 13 personal and professional stories of young people journeying towards professorship were all different, riveting, and well edited. Oldfield and Johnson have done the field of current and prospective faculty, as well as scholars and researchers in the field[s] of higher education, gender studies, and sexuality study, great service by selecting compelling life accounts to illuminate varied aspects of this profound, hitherto invisible, and silenced journey." — New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development"This book began, like many good ideas, as a conversation … the result is a collection of thirteen moving, beautifully written autobiographical essays, each charting a unique, usually roundabout path from working class conditions to the professoriate." — Gay & Lesbian Review