Fwd: [CLHLWR] Staging Women's Lives (6/1/2012) Edited Collection

[Chris]

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>Michelle Masse
>contact email:
><mailto:mmasse at lsu.edu>mmasse at lsu.edu
>
>CFP: Staging Women's Lives in Academia (Literature and Language Workplaces)
>
>We are putting together an edited collection, 
>tentatively titled Staging Women's Lives in 
>Academia. The subtitle, yet to be figured out, 
>will indicate that our focus is upon women in 
>literature and languages. The book, under 
>serious consideration at Rutgers University 
>Press for its new Higher Education Studies 
>series, will focus upon nodal points of 
>professional (graduate school, pre- and post- 
>tenure, mid- and later- career, and retirement) 
>and personal life for women in academia. We have 
>two key premises: that choosing not to continue 
>down the traditional path of academic life 
>stages is as significant as following it, and 
>that the usual conflation of academic and 
>age-specific life stages is deeply gendered.
>
>Our design for the collection outlines 
>professional life stages. These range from:
>
>• finishing the degree (who chooses to write or not write the dissertation);
>• seeking academic or other employment post-Ph.D.;
>• beginning and then remaining in the profession 
>(publishing, promotions, moving into administration or not);
>• leaving academia once employed (whether in a 
>full-time or part-time, pre-tenure or post-tenure position);
>• deciding to retire or to continue working.
>
>We welcome essays from women who have followed a 
>traditional career path, but also from those 
>who've travelled other roads. We can readily see 
>a graduate student writing about the decision to 
>get the Ph.D. but not pursue academic 
>employment, for example, an adjunct writing 
>about mid-career parenting decisions, an 
>administrator writing about being "stuck," an 
>associate professor talking about the decision 
>not to seek promotion to full professor, etc. 
>Parenting, elder-care issues, and general 
>assessment of "professionalization" values can 
>also lead to priorities other than those usually 
>counseled through professional advice venues.
>
>Although we of course want contributors to draw 
>upon personal experience, we will be asking that 
>they both theorize and concretize their essays. 
>As you think about this call, we'd like to ask 
>that you also think about some very basic 
>questions that could help others, such as: 
>"Do/did you discover that your experience was 
>typical, but nonetheless didn't expect it?" 
>"What would you point out as the key features of 
>this stage to a colleague just beginning it?" 
>"How do you think your experiences were shaped 
>by the kind of school you worked at and where 
>your school was situated?" and, everyone's 
>favorite, "What would you do differently if you had it to do again?"
>
>Besides these basic questions, there are many 
>others that you might consider, such as: What is 
>gendered about your career path, your career 
>experience? How did race/ethnicity, age, class, 
>sexuality, and culture affect your academic 
>experience at each stage? How did your academic 
>work feed into, enhance, or distract from other 
>parts of your life? Or how much of your personal 
>life intersects with or clashes with your work 
>life? Has your work changed over time? Have you 
>changed over time in terms of your enthusiasm for, and interest in, your work?
>
>We want contributors to be frank, but we also 
>want these essays to encourage "best practice" 
>discussion and also to serve as references for 
>other women. Because responding fully to some of 
>these topics may be difficult, we are willing to 
>accept proposals or essays by authors writing 
>under a pseudonym or anonymously. We also invite 
>proposals written by several people in dialogue with each other.
>
>Please consider sending in a proposal for this 
>collection, but also think about students and 
>colleagues who fall under the "did not choose 
>to" rubrics who may not be receiving notes such 
>as this. Please forward this call to them. We 
>would like to receive proposals by June 1, 2012. 
>Proposal packets should include a 500-word 
>abstract (or a full essay, if appropriate) and a 
>brief c.v. Final essays should be around 6250 
>words, including notes and Works Cited, although 
>we will consider shorter pieces. They should be sent to both of us:
>
>Michelle Massé at <mailto:mmasse at lsu.edu>mmasse at lsu.edu
>Nan Bauer-Maglin at 
><mailto:nbauer-maglin at gc.cuny.edu>nbauer-maglin at gc.cuny.edu
>
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