The research/teaching conundrum: Deconstructing tenure-d realities

• In Event: Women's authority, voice and negotiation of structures of power

Abstract

This paper addresses the gendered nature of tenure discourse that privileges research over teaching and service, and maintains a hierarchy of “legitimate” research, reifying structural constraints of female professors and faculty of color. In this paper, I analyze four “how to achieve tenure” books and the ways these tenured realities are perpetuated through normalization and rationalization. Finally, I offer some suggestions for changing disenfranchising tenured discourses, pushing for a more inclusive view of scholarship.

Author

• Joshua Hoops, Washington State University