Curating the Self and Embracing the Community

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-67807-1
Verlag: de Gruyter Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Reihe: The Doctoral Journey in Education

This edited volume comprises a compilation of autoethnographic evocations from U.S. doctoral students in the fields of social sciences and humanities, who narrate and analyze their experiences in the doctoral journey and beyond. Through 11 select contributions, the book examines the intersections and shifting roles of the personal and the community in the doctoral student journey, illustrating the complex and unique nature of pursuing a doctoral degree. Part 1, Curating the Self, includes five autoethnographic accounts that speak directly to the personal challenges and transformations experienced in the doctoral journey. Part 2, Embracing the Community, includes six autoethnographic accounts illustrating supportive communities’ life-changing power during the doctoral journey.

Contributors are: Gabriel T. Acevedo Velázquez, Ahmad A. Alharthi, Afiya Armstrong, Nick Bardo, Caitlin Beare, Rebecca Borowski, Anya Ezhevskaya, Christopher Fornaro, Melinda Harrison, Linda Helmick, Joanelle Morales, Olya Perevalova, Alexis Saba, Kimberly Sterin, Katrina Struloeff, Rebecca L. Thacker, Lisa D. Wood, Erin H. York, Christel Young and Nara Yun.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herrera, Luis Pentón

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pentón Herrera, Luis Javier

Trinh, Ethan

Yazan, Bedrettin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Luis Javier Pentón Herrera, Ethan Trinh and Bedrettin Yazan

PART 1: Curating the Self

1 Navigating Queer and Latinx Identities throughout My Doctoral Program Journey

Gabriel T. Acevedo Velázquez

2 I’m Going Back to School: A Fortysomething-Year-Old Urban Appalachian and the Academy

Rebecca L. Thacker

3 Two Birds, One Queer Body, All Negotiation: An Autoethnography on the Pursuit of Dual Terminal Degrees

Erin H. York

4 Asset, Not Deficit: The Growth Mindset of a First-Generation Doctoral Candidate

Melinda Harrison

5 Digging up Bones: A Duoethnography about Marriage, Parenting, and Doctoral Study

Nick Bardo and Joanelle Morales

PART 2: Embracing the Community

6 Sailing out of the Drift: A Duoethnographic Study of an Empowered Partnership

Lisa D. Wood and Nara Yun

7 The Balancing Act: A Duoethnographic Study of How Two Strangers Helped Each Other Hold It Together through the Doctoral Process

Afiya Armstrong and Christel Young

8 Tensions in Transition: Visual Collaborative Autoethnography as Analysis of and Healing from the Academic Job Market

Linda Helmick, Rebecca Borowski and Alexis Saba

9 Between Writing and Tutoring: A Duoethnographic Perspective

Ahmad A. Alharthi and Caitlin Beare

10 Resisting Neoliberal Norms through a Pedagogy of Care: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Three Doctoral Students’ Comprehensive Exams Experience

Kimberly Sterin, Katrina Struloeff and Christopher Fornaro

11 Channeling the Inner Astronaut: Exploring Peer Relationships in Online Doctoral Programs

Olya Perevalova and Anya Ezhevskaya

Final Thoughts

Luis Javier Pentón Herrera, Ethan Trinh and Bedrettin Yazan

Über Autor(innen)

Luis Javier Pentón Herrera is Full Professor at the Akademia Ekonomiczno-Humanistyczna w Warszawie, Poland, the Coordinator of the Graduate TESOL Certificate at The George Washington University, United States, and Co-Editor of Tapestry: A Multimedia Journal for Teachers and English Learners.

Ethan Trinh is a Vietnamese, queer, non-binary, immigrant, researcher, and critical language teacher educator and earned their doctorate at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Their works focus on emotions and well-being in language education that embraces queerness as a healing teaching and research practice.

Bedrettin Yazan is Associate Professor in the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His research focuses on language teacher identity, language policy and planning, and World Englishes. Methodologically he is interested in critical autoethnography, narrative inquiry, and qualitative case study.