Affective Writing as a Promise of “Yet-To-Become:” Unearthing the Meaning of Writing Through the Voices of Tenure-Track Assistant Professors

Jeong-Hee Kim, Joshua Cruz, Rebecca Hite, Jerry Dwyer, Jessica Gottlieb, Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer, Mihwa Park, Julie Smit, Patriann Smith, Aaron Zimmerman

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Abstract

In this article, we collectively explore our shared experience of the act of writing in academia. Drawing upon the voices of tenure-track assistant professors in a research university and using the lens of affect theory, we inquire into what it is like to write in the modern academy increasingly influenced by the institution’s neoliberal agenda. Our experiences are shared in multiple poems, created by the cut-up method. It is our hope that the affect of writing or affective writing would flow from body to body, cutting across our personal feelings, reaching far to those who are in a situation similar to ours existing in the space outside of our reality.
Original languageAmerican English
JournalTaboo: The Journal of Culture and Education
Volume19
StatePublished - 2020

Disciplines

  • Education

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