Papa, PhD [electronic resource] : essays on fatherhood by men in the academy / edited by Mary Ruth Marotte, Paige Martin Reynolds, and Ralph James Savarese.

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ISBN:

9780813550206

9780813548784

9780813548791

9781283864176

Title:

Papa, PhD [electronic resource] : essays on fatherhood by men in the academy / edited by Mary Ruth Marotte, Paige Martin Reynolds, and Ralph James Savarese.

Author:

Marotte, Mary Ruth.

Publication Information:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2011.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 240 pages)

Contents:

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.

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Savarese, Ralph James.

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Publication Date:

2011

Publication Information:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2011.

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Summary

It is not easy raising a family and balancing work and personal commitments in academia, regardless of gender. Parents endure the stress of making tenure with the demands of life with children. While women's careers are derailed more often than men's as a result of such competing pressures, fathers, too, experience conflicting feelings about work and home, making parenting ever more challenging.

In Papa, PhD , Mary Ruth Marotte, Paige Martin Reynolds, and Ralph James Savarese bring together a group contributors from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. They are white, black, South Asian, Asian, and Arab. They are gay and straight, married and divorced. They are tenured and untenured, at research-one universities and at community colleges. Some write at the beginning of their careers, others at the end. But, perhaps most important they do not look back-they look forward to new parental and professional synergies as they reflect on what it means to be a father in the academy.

The fathers writing in Papa, PhD seek to expand their children's horizons, giving them the gifts of better topic sentences and a cosmopolitan sensibility. They seriously consider the implications of gender theory and queer theory-even Marxist theory-and make relevant theoretical connections between their work and the less abstract, more pragmatic, world of fathering. What resonates is the astonishing range of forms that fatherhood can take as these dads challenge traditional norms by actively questioning the status quo.

Author Notes

Mary Ruth Marotte is an assistant professor of English and the director of graduate studies in English at the University of Central Arkansas. She is the author of Captive Bodies: American Women Writers Redefine Pregnancy and Childbirth .

Paige Martin Reynolds is an assistant professor of English at the University of Central Arkansas, where she specializes in teaching and writing about early modern drama.

Ralph James Savarese teaches American literature, disability studies, and creative writing at Grinnell College. He is the author of Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption , which Newsweek called a "real-life love story and a passionate manifesto for the rights of people with neurological disabilities," and the winner of the Herman Melville Society's Hennig Cohen Prize for an "Outstanding Contribution to Melville Scholarship."