Papa, PhD : essays on fatherhood by men in the academy /

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Imprint:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 240 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Fatherhood. Father and child. Father and child. Fatherhood. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11123967

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Other authors / contributors:	Marotte, Mary Ruth. Reynolds, Paige. Savarese, Ralph James.
ISBN:	9780813550206 0813550203 0813548780 9780813548784 0813548799 9780813548791 1283864177 9781283864176
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. English.
Summary:	A collection of personal essays from men who wrestle with what it means to be a father in academia today. Organized in three sections, the stories of the contributors depict not merely a balancing act of parenting, teaching, and writing, but also the revelatory collision and occasional fusion of competing identities. Essays in the first section, "Fathers in Theory, Fathers in Praxis," focus on challenges related to merging work and parenting. The authors contemplate to what degree we engage our children in the academy, while also allowing them to grow independently, recognizing the challenge of keeping the roles of parent and teacher distinct. The second section, "Family Made," explores fatherhood against the grain and includes narratives of single dads, fathers raising children with disabilities, biracial families, and other "non-traditional" parenting situations. "Forging New Fatherhoods," the third section, articulates the strategies created by men to "balance diapers and a doctorate" or to reconcile fatherhood with professional ambition. The contributors' reflections reveal how fatherhood is instrumental to their successes and failures in the workplace, and demonstrate that the relationship between fatherhood and academia is a rich and legitimate subject for study.
Other form:	Print version: Marotte, Mary Ruth. Papa, PhD : Essays on Fatherhood by Men in the Academy. Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, ©2010 9780813548784
Standard no.:	ebc864868

Table of 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.

Papa, PhD : essays on fatherhood by men in the academy /

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