Graduate Students at Work highlights the expertise and experiences of graduate students to demonstrate what graduate study entails, what it makes possible, and what it constrains in the context of corporatizing higher education. This collection of full-length research articles and short personal essays illustrates graduate students’ experiences, organizing tactics, and strategies for staying in or moving out of the academy.
Speaking from personal experience as well as reporting research findings, the contributors of Graduate Students at Work illustrate the significant expertise that graduate students are asked to enact in their time-intensive jobs as teachers, researchers, and administrators, even as they are kept in poverty wages for the decade or so it takes to move through a master’s and doctoral program into the promised land of a tenure-track job. While these students are the leaders of the academic labor movement, they have yet to receive as much attention as adjunct instructors and other laborers in the university system. Though they experience harassment, discrimination, and exploitation, graduate students rarely have access to labor protections because they are often misclassified as students, not employees—a key rhetorical strategy universities use to fight graduate student organizing.
These essays and articles also draw insightful connections between the labor conditions of graduate student workers and other workers navigating poverty wages, labor migration, limited benefits, and harassment and discrimination around lines of race, gender, ability, and citizenship—the most important connection perhaps being the possibility for organization and unionization to fight for better working conditions for all.
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction: Graduate Students are Hyper-Exploited, Tessa Brown
Part I: Labor at the Margins
Interlude 1. Levels to This Sh*t: Layers of Graduate Student Labor, Khadeidra Billingsley
1. “I Have to Go Wherever There’s an Opportunity”: Graduate Students’ Experiences of Placelessness and Writing, Charlotte Kupsh and Zoe Mc Donald
Interlude 2. Invisible Marginalization in Academia, Samah Elbelazi
Interlude 3. Invisible Labors and Entangled Emergence, Andrew Hollinger
2.“Like I’m ‘The Man’”: Graduate Student Administrators’ Experiences, Talinn Phillips, Paul Shovlin, and Megan Titus
Interlude 4. The Ethics of Progressive Internships, Meagan Gacke-Reed
3. “It’s Dangerous to Go Alone”: Explorations of Unbalanced Labor and Mentorship in a Blended Learning Doctoral Program, April Cobos and Megan Mize
Part II: The Labor of Teaching and Research
4. Will This Take Me Anywhere? Investing Time in Graduate Student Teaching, Elliot Shapiro
Interlude 5. Establishing Ethos for a Translingual GTA—The Unwritten Labor, Anis Rahman
5. Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn, Sara Austin and Kelly Moreland
Interlude 6. Mothering and Laboring as a Graduate Student and Teacher, Alma Villanueva
Interlude 7. Parenting while Researching? It Takes Support, Kid-Friendly Systems, and a Lot of Luck, Jacqueline M. Kory-Westlund
Part III: The Labor of “Professionalization”
Interlude 8. The Professoriate Is a Job, Sarah Welsh
6. Scholar-Selves in the Managerial University: The Hidden Labor of Disciplinary Identity Formation in the Doctoral Journey, Adam Haley
Interlude 9. Ethically Honoring Graduate Student Expertise through Joy Projects Conclusion: The Future of the Neo-Confederate Museum, Jaclyn Fiscus-Cannaday and Allison Hutchison
7. Chinese Doctoral Students’ Perceptions of Employability in the United States: cultivating Preparedness for a Challenging World, Xueshuang Wang, Weiyan Xiong, and Huiyuan Ye
Part IV: Organizing Labor
Interlude 10. Paying to Teach: A Profile of California State University System English Department Graduate Teaching Associate Programs, Martha Althea Webber
8. “Fees Are Wage Theft”: Graduate Labor Unions Confronting the Neoliberal University, Jonathan Isaac
Interlude 11. A How-To guide for Combating the Invisibility of Graduate Student Parents, Alex Hanson
9. “We’ll Be Taking This with Us”: Relationality and Idealism in Three Graduate Student Locals, Anicca Cox
Afterword: Striking for a Safer Campus Community, Kalena Thomhave and Matt Sehrsweeney
About the Contributors
Index
Om författaren
Tessa Brown is an entrepreneur and was previously a lecturer in the Program on Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University.
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