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- ISBN 9780761854951
- Weight: 354g
- Dimensions: 154 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 11 Oct 2011
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
Click here to see excerpts from the book featured in the Journal of Transnational American Studies.
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.
