Narratives of Marginalized Identities in Higher Education: Inside and Outside the Academy

This book features theorized narratives from academics who inhabit marginalized identity positions, including, among others, academics with non-normative genders, sexualities, and relationships; nontenured faculty; racial and ethnic minorities; scholars with HIV, depression and anxiety, and other disabilities; immigrants and international students; and poor and working-class faculty and students. The chapters in this volume explore the ways in which marginalized identities fundamentally shape and impact the academic experience; thus, the contributors in this collection demonstrate how academic outsiderism works both within the confines of their college or university systems, and a broader matrix of community, state, and international relations. With an emphasis on the inherent intersectionality of identity positions, this book addresses the broad matrix of ways academics navigate their particular locations as marginalized subjects.

Santosh Khadka is an Assistant Professor of English at California State University, Northridge, USA.

Joanna Davis-McElligatt is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA.

Keith Dorwick is a Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA.