Michelle A. Massé is Dean of the Graduate School, Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University, and President of the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages. She is the coeditor (with Katie J. Hogan) of Over Ten Million Served: Gendered Service in Language and Literature Workplaces, also published by SUNY Press. Now retired, Nan Bauer-Maglin was Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and Academic Director of the City University of New York Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies. Her books include Final Acts: Death, Dying, and the Choices We Make (coedited with Donna Perry).

• Preface Introduction Part I. Graduate School1. A Job That Gets Old Fast: Age Studies, Academic Labor Criticism, and the Graduate EmployeeHeather M. Steffen2. Discourse of Aspiration: A Community of Nontraditional Women StudentsNancy Scott Fox3. The Accidental Academic, or How to Succeed in Academia through Failure and DoubtJennifer Ann Ho4. Uses of My Anger: Negotiating Mothering, Feminism, and Graduate SchoolMartha Pitts5. The Chaos of Kairos: Conflicting Discourses of Timing, Mothering, and FlexibilityJessica Ketcham Part II. Early Career (Including Pre-Tenure)6. Working-Class Women on the Tenure TrackLynn Arner7. My Double Life in Academia, or Extreme Parenting on the Tenure TrackMariana Past8. Solo on Stage: The Single Mother’s Solitary Path to TenureHélène E. Bilis9. Square Peg, Round Hole: My Journey toward Professor of PracticeKheli R. Willetts10. CurrencyElline Lipkin11. Settling Down without Settling: Reflecting on Ambition, Agency, and AcquiescenceJessica McKelvie Kemp Part III. Midcareer (Including Post-Tenure)12. Lives Like Mine: Notes at Midlife on Career ChangeCynthia Miller Coffel13. The Good Enough Academic Mother at MidcareerDevoney Looser14. Solitary in the South: Confessions of a Single Academic at MidlifeCynthia Port15. (In)Visibilities: A Woman Faculty of Color’s Search for a Disabled Identity That FitsEllen M. Gil-Gómez16. Voicing Discontent: Gender, Working-Class Values, and Composition StudiesRhonda Filipan17. Staging Women’s Lives on the "Altac" TrackBrenda Bethman and Donna M. Bickford18. Gratitude, Agency, and the Reformation of the Stage ApproachKathryn D. Temple Part IV. Late Career and Retirement19. The Academic Slow LaneKatie J. Hogan20. Relentless Improvising: A Full Professor Struggles to Manage Work, Family, and HealthCarol Colatrella21. An Academic Evolution: From Chicanita to Mamá to Abuela Angelica Duran22. Love’s Labors: Taking Care of MotherRuth Perry23. A View of Her OwnLynn Z. Bloom24. The Work of RetirementDeborah Kaplan25. Retirement in Two VoicesEvelyn Torton Beck and Deborah S. Rosenfelt Contributors Index