Disney dad / Amitava Kumar -- Gaining a daughter: a father's transgendered tale / Lennard J. Davis -- Gifts from the sea / David G. Campbell -- The luck of the irish / F.D. Reeve -- Shifting the tectonic plates of academia / Jerald Walker -- Hair-raising experiences / John W. Wells -- A river runs through it: queer theory and fatherhood / Joseph Gelfer -- On writing and rearing / David Blake -- How to do things with words / Ira L. Strauber -- On fecundity, fidelity, and expectation: reflections on philosophy and fatherhood / J. Aaron Simmons -- Sheathing the sword / Gregory Orfalea -- Weighed but found wanting: ten years of being measured and divided / Robert Mayer -- Vespers, matins, and lauds: the life of a liberal arts college professor / Ralph James Savarese -- How white was my prairie / Mark Montgomery -- Meniscus / Robert Gray -- Once was lost / John Bryant -- Shared attention: hearing Cameron's voice / Mark Osteen -- Accidental academic, deliberate dad / Kevin G. Barnhurst -- Late fatherhood among the baptists / Andrew Hazucha -- Being a dad, studying fathers: personal reflections / William Marsiglio -- Single dad in academia: fatherhood and the redemption of scholarship / Eric H. du Plessis -- Superheroes / Stanford W. Carpenter -- Maybe it is just math: fatherhood and disease in academia / Jason Thompson -- Dreaming of direction: reconciling fatherhood and ambition / Mike Augsperger -- Making a home for family and scholarship / Ting Man Tsao -- Change is here, but we need to talk about it: reflections on black fatherhood in the academy / Jeffrey B. Leak -- Vocabularies and their subversion: a reminiscence / John Domini -- Balancing diapers and a doctorate: the adventures of a single dad in grad school / Charles Bane -- It's a chapter-book, huh: teaching, writing, and early fatherhood / Alex Vernon -- Pitcher this: an academic dad's award-winning attempt to be in two places at once / Colin Irvine -- Odd quirks / Christopher Gabbard -- The precarious private life of professor father fiction chef and other possible poignancies / Gary McCullough.