Academic Re:searching: Bodies... of work

Friday, June 17, 2011

Bodies... of work

I want to work on my mamabodies article about adoption and the mothering body even though I should prioritize starting the new book chapter. So: I'm going to try to make little bits of progress on each, or at least the following by next Wednesday, June 22.

Photo by Hawkinson Photography

Michelle's to-do List:
For the book chapter: I will order the new novel I want to write about. I will first check my research funding deadlines. I may put off the ordering if dates insist and work on the other novel section in the meantime.

For the article: I will freewrite a framework so that I can get a better idea of what my theoretical and factual holes are.

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What is Academic Re:searching?

Oh, dear. Aren't we over the trite nineties-era insertion of quotation marks into words to signal nuanced multiplicities of meaning? Do we still think that either our readers are that stupid or that we are that clever? Well. We avoid binaries, preferring to think instead that the answer lies somewhere in the middle of the two extremes. Reality decrees that academics must research. Period. Yet reality also involves numerous barriers to carving out and productively using limited research time. As such, we academics are usually searching for research time. With luck, we either find it or make it. This blog is a space in which two Assistant Professors seek to negotiate the fraught processes of research, and to balance these with teaching, service, and (gasp!) personal lives. Since I believe our readers are intelligent, I will let them puzzle out any nuanced multiplicities of meaning in this blog's title.