Bridging Cultures explores the experiences of international women faculty as they acculturate to the US academy. In a series of memoirs, 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.
Bridging Cultures explores the experiences of international women faculty as they acculturate to the US academy. In a series of memoirs, 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.
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.
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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
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
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