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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marotte, Mary Ruth.

Reynolds, Paige.

Savarese, Ralph James.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fatherhood.

Father and child.

Physical Description:

xix, 240 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

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

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.

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

Doing 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780813548784

0813548780

9780813548791

0813548799

OCLC:

494284435