Working-Class Academics: Theories, Mythologies, Realities

Edited by Carol Siegel

Introduction

» Still Unbroken

Carol Siegel

Essays

» A Clamor in My Kindergarten Heart: Class, Academia, and Anxious Times

Sara Appel

» Aerodynamics

Susan B. Apel

» Working-Class Women at the MLA Interview

Lynn Arner

» Rhetorical Maneuvers: Reflections on being Blue Collar in an Academic World

Raymond Blanton and Joshua P. Ewalt

» What Is a Working-Class Intellectual?

Larry Busk and Billy Goehring

» Is Higher Education Working Class? The Politics of Labor in Neoliberal Academe

Jeffrey R. Di Leo

» What Makes Working-class Scholarship Worth Pursuing

Ian Ho-yin Fong

» Dreams and Nightmares: Survivor Guilt in Working Class Crossovers

Barbara Jensen

» This Circle Has an End: Teaching "Myself," Fifteen Years Later

Heidi J. Jones

» Tress-passing: A Hair-raising Tale of Surviving by Migrating to the Un(Class)ified Mind

Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb

» Mr Messy and the Ghost in the Machine

Mcphie, Jamie

» I Was So Right About That: Social Class and the Academy

Sharon O'Dair

» As Long as You Think We Are White: Our Experience as Working Class Academics in the Humanities

Justin Philpot and Katie Sullivan Barak

» "A Working-Class Intellectual is Something to Be"? Theorizing the Incorporation (and Resistance) of Working-Class Academics as a (Counter-) Hegemonic Process

Herbert Pimlott

» From the Trailer Park to the Ivory Tower and Somewhere in Between: A Critical Autoethnography of Class Performativity in Academe

Tasha Rennels

» Homespace: Rejecting Academic Relocation and Honoring Working-Class Roots

Stephanie Sellers

» Nuanced White Trash: Embodying Class, Moving Through Time, and Caretaking in the Neoliberal University

Raechel Tiffe

» Coming to know

Valerie Walkerdine

» On the Other Side of What Tracks? The missing discussion of social class in the academy

Deborah Warnock

Reviews

» Richard Gilman-Opalsky, Precarious Communism: Manifest Mutations. Manifesto Detourned

Matt Bernico

Notes

» Contributors