Bridging Cultures
International Women Faculty Transforming the US Academy
Published on 11. October 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
230 pages
978-0-7618-5495-1 (ISBN)
Description
Bridging Cultures explores the experiences of international women faculty as they acculturate to the US academy. In a series of memoirs shaped by multiple disciplinary perspectives, these women reflect on their gendered personal experiences as "ex-pat" faculty members and set their stories within the larger context of American higher education's increasingly international character. Response pieces by scholars drawn from a range of fields and institutional settings situate this project within diverse frameworks. The response pieces will inform and educate faculty, students, and administrators interested in shaping the culture of the academy today. With an introduction focused on their interdisciplinary feminist methodology, an epilogue revisiting the collaborative strategies employed throughout their project, and a set of generative discussion questions, the editors provide numerous tools to support related research and teaching. They also provide a means for professional development for both faculty and administrators.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
380 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7618-5495-1 (9780761854951)
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Persons
Federica Santini is associate professor of Italian at Kennesaw State University and coordinates their Italian program. Her published works include articles on modern and contemporary Italian poetry, as well as numerous translations and volume contributions. Santini recently completed a new English edition of the anthology I Novissimi in collaboration with Luigi Ballerini.
Sabine H. Smith is associate professor of German at Kennesaw State University. She is the author of Sexual Violence in German Culture: Re-Reading and Re-Writing the Tradition. Her current focuses are on the scholarship of teaching and learning and undergraduates' service-learning and study abroad experiences.
Sarah R. Robbins is the Lorraine Sherley Professor of Literature at TCU and professor emerita of English at Kennesaw State University. She is the author of Managing Literacy, Mothering America and The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe. With historian Ann Pullen, Robbins co-edited and contributed to Nellie Arnott's Writings on Angola, 1905-1913.
Sabine H. Smith is associate professor of German at Kennesaw State University. She is the author of Sexual Violence in German Culture: Re-Reading and Re-Writing the Tradition. Her current focuses are on the scholarship of teaching and learning and undergraduates' service-learning and study abroad experiences.
Sarah R. Robbins is the Lorraine Sherley Professor of Literature at TCU and professor emerita of English at Kennesaw State University. She is the author of Managing Literacy, Mothering America and The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe. With historian Ann Pullen, Robbins co-edited and contributed to Nellie Arnott's Writings on Angola, 1905-1913.
Content
Acknowledgments
Preface: Building an Aspirational Culture
through Collaborative Inquiry
Sarah R. Robbins
Introduction
Federica Santini, Sabine H. Smith, and Sarah R. Robbins
I. Memoirs on Bridging Cultures
Chapter 1: Professing in a Foreign Tongue:
A Central European Perspective on English Studies
Katarina Gephardt
Chapter 2: East Meets West: An Asian Woman Teacher Educator's Journey Enacting Global Pedagogy in the American South
Guichun Zong
Chapter 3: Perfectly Ambivalent:
How German Am I?
Sabine H. Smith
Chapter 4: The Stranger in the Classroom:
The Professional Acculturation of Three Romanian Scholars
Darina Lepadatu, Cristina Gheorghiu-Stephens,
and Gilbert Lepadatu
Chapter 5: Disclosure, Dialogue,
and Coming of Age in the Academy
Gertrude Tinker Sachs, Pier Angeli Junor Clarke, Wanjira Kinuthia, Ewa McGrail, and Geeta Verma
Chapter 6: Language is the House of Being
Federica Santini
II. Responses
Response 1: Race, Identity, and International Faculty
on US Campuses
Satya P. Mohanty, Cornell University
Response 2: In Defense of Encapsulated Marginality
Edward K. Chan, Aichi University, Japan
Response 3: Alien Alliances:
An Austrian Academic Reads US Scholars' Stories
Ulla Kriebernegg, University of Graz, Austria
Response 4: In Pursuit of Excellence, Diversity, and Globalization: The Art of Leveraging International Assets in Academia
Steve O. Michael, Arcadia University
Response 5: Still Becoming
Rosangela Boyd, Texas Christian University
III. Building an Aspirational Culture
Epilogue: Synthesizing Stories and Making Connections
Lori Howard, Sarah R. Robbins, Sabine H. Smith, and
Bridging Cultures writers
Questions: Reflection, Discussion, and Cultural Change
Federica Santini and Sabine H. Smith
Index
About the Contributors
Preface: Building an Aspirational Culture
through Collaborative Inquiry
Sarah R. Robbins
Introduction
Federica Santini, Sabine H. Smith, and Sarah R. Robbins
I. Memoirs on Bridging Cultures
Chapter 1: Professing in a Foreign Tongue:
A Central European Perspective on English Studies
Katarina Gephardt
Chapter 2: East Meets West: An Asian Woman Teacher Educator's Journey Enacting Global Pedagogy in the American South
Guichun Zong
Chapter 3: Perfectly Ambivalent:
How German Am I?
Sabine H. Smith
Chapter 4: The Stranger in the Classroom:
The Professional Acculturation of Three Romanian Scholars
Darina Lepadatu, Cristina Gheorghiu-Stephens,
and Gilbert Lepadatu
Chapter 5: Disclosure, Dialogue,
and Coming of Age in the Academy
Gertrude Tinker Sachs, Pier Angeli Junor Clarke, Wanjira Kinuthia, Ewa McGrail, and Geeta Verma
Chapter 6: Language is the House of Being
Federica Santini
II. Responses
Response 1: Race, Identity, and International Faculty
on US Campuses
Satya P. Mohanty, Cornell University
Response 2: In Defense of Encapsulated Marginality
Edward K. Chan, Aichi University, Japan
Response 3: Alien Alliances:
An Austrian Academic Reads US Scholars' Stories
Ulla Kriebernegg, University of Graz, Austria
Response 4: In Pursuit of Excellence, Diversity, and Globalization: The Art of Leveraging International Assets in Academia
Steve O. Michael, Arcadia University
Response 5: Still Becoming
Rosangela Boyd, Texas Christian University
III. Building an Aspirational Culture
Epilogue: Synthesizing Stories and Making Connections
Lori Howard, Sarah R. Robbins, Sabine H. Smith, and
Bridging Cultures writers
Questions: Reflection, Discussion, and Cultural Change
Federica Santini and Sabine H. Smith
Index
About the Contributors