“You’re Not Able to Breathe”: Conceptualizing the Intersectionality of Early Career, Gender, and Crisis

• In Event: Early Career Faculty Experiences

Abstract

This paper focuses on conceptualizing the intersectionality of early career, gender, and crisis, drawing on the results of a small-scale qualitative study composed of nine focus groups with 44 academics in Portugal, Spain, Italy, and the United States about their pedagogical experiences in higher education classrooms. The author begins by exploring new ways to operationalize “crisis” and “early career.” She then uses participant responses to examine 1) the effects of new manifestations of crisis on the identities of early career academics and 2) early career academics’ relationship with higher education pedagogies. In both sections, she theorizes how gender further intensifies issues surrounding the participants’ subjectivity. The author concludes by discussing how to further a research agenda around this intersectionality.

Author

• Lauren Ila Misiaszek, Beijing Normal University