Last year was a hard year. I wrote about this difficulty—vaguely eluding to challenges of environment, home, and work—in my last post. In this blog, which was a copy of my reflection for our last faculty meeting of the year,… Read More ›
Academy
A feminist closet? by Linn Marie Tonstad
Every now and again, a budding systematic theologian comes to my office and wants to talk about how to avoid being pegged as a feminist, and therewith avoid not being taken seriously as a theologian. Sometimes the students are feminists,… Read More ›
Feminist Professors Are Not Secluded Monks by Kwok Pui-lan
In his column “Professors, We Need You!” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof charges that most university professors “just don’t matter in today’s great debates” and admonishes them not to cloister themselves “like medieval monks.” Many academics and others took… Read More ›
What It’s Like To Be A Woman In The Academy: Mentoring Edition by Linn Marie Tonstad
In my first post, I promised to return to the topic of mentoring. Mentoring is a survival strategy for feminists inside hostile or difficult-to-navigate environments; in its best possibilities, mentoring is a strategy for flourishing, not just surviving. But when… Read More ›
The Boldness of Grace Ji-Sun Kim by Grace Yia-Hei Kao
“The Grace of Sophia is an openly ‘syncretistic’ work.”
Navigating the Academy with an Accent by Amanda Pumphrey
“Where are you from?” I wish I had a dollar for every time someone has asked me that question since moving to California. I would be able to make a substantial payment towards my student loan debt by now. No… Read More ›
(Non-Human) Animals on the Agenda by Grace Yia-Hei Kao
“[E]thical interest in nonhuman animals is flourishing.” To my delight, the New York Times recently chronicled the growing scholarly interest in human/non-human animal interactions in a story entitled “Animal Studies Cross Campus to Lecture Hall.” There are now more than 100… Read More ›
Getting Tenure, Part II: On Being the First of My Kind by Grace Yia-Hei Kao
“I am honored to be the first person of Taiwanese heritage, and first Asian American woman, to have earned tenure at CST.” I’ve recently recounted how it took a village for me to complete the rite of passage known as tenure… Read More ›
Hearing Each Other to Speech in the Academy By Xochitl Alvizo
Sometimes when I write, especially when I am writing an academic paper but even when I am writing for this blog, I imagine that I am writing it to my feminist peer-group. I am part of a group of four… Read More ›
