217 - Professional Development Workshop. Navigating Queer Indentities in the Department and Classroom

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Abstract

LGBTQ faculty and graduate students face particular stressors on a routine basis that their straight and cisgender colleagues typically do not. These stressors include: navigating how our colleagues and students read us (in both gendered and sexual ways, whether we present normatively or not); questions of if, when, and how to come out to colleagues and students; and dealing with microaggressions at work.
Such a decision potentially impacts (subtly or overtly) a variety of departmental actions, including things like hiring, tenure, promotion, and appointment to various committees, particularly if faculty members' teaching or research trajectory are read as advancing some personal agenda. The purpose of this workshop is to explore various mechanisms and strategies of navigating being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer identified in one's department and/or classroom.
Panelists will reflect on a variety of experiences and backgrounds, including how sexual and gender identities intersect with other identities (such as race, ethnicity, ability, religion, etc.); research-, teaching-. and service- related issues; and being at various career stages and institutions.

Sub Unit

• Professional Development Workshop

Session Organizer

• Shawn Alan Trivette, Louisiana Tech University

Leader

• Shawn Alan Trivette, Louisiana Tech University

Panelists

• Carla A. Pfeffer, Purdue University-North Central

• Cary Gabriel Costello, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• Elroi J. Windsor, Salem College

• Eric Anthony Grollman, University of Richmond

• Leah K. VanWey, Brown University