Borders and Tensions in the Context of Doctoral Writing

Re-imagining Doctoral Writing, 2021

It has been a privilege to work on this edited collection despite the fact that much of the work has taken place during a pandemic when, for many of us, our lives have been turned inside out. The series editors Terry Zawacki, Joan Mullin, Magnus Gustafsson, and Federico Navarro have been exceptionally helpful, as has been founding editor and publisher Mike Palmquist. Terry, in particular, has guided us with gentle encouragement and thoughtful suggestions throughout the process. We also thank the contributors for their work on chapters and for their collegial approach to this project. It has been a pleasure to work with you all, and we look forward to many years of collaborations in the future. We would also like to thank all the readers who read earlier drafts of pieces of this collection. We are grateful for your careful work. Cecile: I would like to acknowledge the support from Memorial University for assistance in the preparation of this manuscript and in particular for the Publications Subventions Program grant. I also want to thank my co-editors, Britt and Jamie, for a most enjoyable journey. Our virtual meetings became a highlight for me. I'm also extremely grateful to both of them for carrying the load when I became ill. They conveyed their compassion and care in multiple ways. Britt: As I type this on my phone (with one hand, while feeding my new baby), I am astounded at what can be accomplished when academics come together to carefully collaborate. As authors and editors, we have been through births, deaths, sickness (hello Covid-19!), health, layoffs, new jobs, as well as dissertation endings (congrats!), beginnings, and somewhere in between. I am grateful to my co-editors who have sustained me in more ways than I could possibly detail. I am grateful to the authors, who gracefully took on rounds of editing and review in order to push this piece further. I am grateful to the Algonquin Nation whose territory includes the Ottawa River watershed, which nurtures and sustains my life and the lives of my kin. Finally, I am grateful to my human, Sean Botti, whose countless hours of visible and invisible labour has contributed to making this project a reality. Jamie: I am grateful to so many people who have been a part of bringing this collection together. I would like to thank my co-editors, Britt and Cecile, for their rigour, generosity, and care. The fact that we have edited this book from different corners of the world has frequently opened up interesting juxtapositions in time and season and in terms of how we think about doctoral education and writing. I am grateful to chapter authors for working with us RE-IMAGINING DOCTORAL WRITING

Re-imagining Doctoral Writing, 2021

It has been a privilege to work on this edited collection despite the fact that much of the work has taken place during a pandemic when, for many of us, our lives have been turned inside out. The series editors Terry Zawacki, Joan Mullin, Magnus Gustafsson, and Federico Navarro have been exceptionally helpful, as has been founding editor and publisher Mike Palmquist. Terry, in particular, has guided us with gentle encouragement and thoughtful suggestions throughout the process. We also thank the contributors for their work on chapters and for their collegial approach to this project. It has been a pleasure to work with you all, and we look forward to many years of collaborations in the future. We would also like to thank all the readers who read earlier drafts of pieces of this collection. We are grateful for your careful work. Cecile: I would like to acknowledge the support from Memorial University for assistance in the preparation of this manuscript and in particular for the Publications Subventions Program grant. I also want to thank my co-editors, Britt and Jamie, for a most enjoyable journey. Our virtual meetings became a highlight for me. I'm also extremely grateful to both of them for carrying the load when I became ill. They conveyed their compassion and care in multiple ways. Britt: As I type this on my phone (with one hand, while feeding my new baby), I am astounded at what can be accomplished when academics come together to carefully collaborate. As authors and editors, we have been through births, deaths, sickness (hello Covid-19!), health, layoffs, new jobs, as well as dissertation endings (congrats!), beginnings, and somewhere in between. I am grateful to my co-editors who have sustained me in more ways than I could possibly detail. I am grateful to the authors, who gracefully took on rounds of editing and review in order to push this piece further. I am grateful to the Algonquin Nation whose territory includes the Ottawa River watershed, which nurtures and sustains my life and the lives of my kin. Finally, I am grateful to my human, Sean Botti, whose countless hours of visible and invisible labour has contributed to making this project a reality. Jamie: I am grateful to so many people who have been a part of bringing this collection together. I would like to thank my co-editors, Britt and Cecile, for their rigour, generosity, and care. The fact that we have edited this book from different corners of the world has frequently opened up interesting juxtapositions in time and season and in terms of how we think about doctoral education and writing. I am grateful to chapter authors for working with us RE-IMAGINING DOCTORAL WRITING

Knowledge Production Research Work in Interesting Times, 2007

2020

Kinship of many kinds has brought me to this moment. My academic kin are numerous, but I will be brief. Ms. Jones and Mr. Arnerich: thank you for helping me love literature, not just books, and believing in my ability as a writer. Dr. Continothank you for making that very first paper bleed red. You helped me learn that our writing, too, must descend to ascend. Thank you, also, for teaching me how much the text matters. That advice has never steered me wrong. Dr. Julianne Smithyour many hours of attention to my words and the doors you opened for me into the Victorian past and the scholarly present have been invaluable. Thank you. The PepStep faculty: Damien, Stella, Carrie B., and Carrie W.thank you for ensuring we learned theory and praxis. It stood me well. To Waves near and far, but especially Catherine, Cassandra and Daniyour support at all hours of the day has been deeply meaningfulfriends for all seasons. To my many undergraduate researchers, you have been pearls without price. The OG crew who collected the website data: Kat, Kynedi, Michelle, and Abbymy gratitude knows no bounds. The citations crew: I see you. Paige and Ixchelyour amazing work at the final hour will not be forgotten. My GGSE valiant last-minute editors-Emily and Tanishathank you for your keen eyes. Without the material help of Khirsten Scott and Lou Maraj in the form of DBLAC, there are whole quarters worth of work that might not have gotten done. Jacqueline Jones Royster and Asao Inoue have, through their presence in the field and the fire that is their scholarship, profoundly shaped this dissertation and me. Thank you, Anne Charity Hudley, for the hours of mentorship. Vilna Bashi-Treitler, you inspire me every day, showing me what it looks like to claim your beauty and be a mom while also producing excellent scholarship. Dorothy Chunyour words about my writing have been a defense against imposter syndrome. Trish Fancher, Ellen O'Connell-Whittet, and Kara Mae Brown, you have all been a wonderful sisterhood of Writing Studies scholars and I am beyond grateful. Karen Lunsfordwhen I walked, pregnant, into your office all those years ago, you saw a woman ready to compose herself into a scholar. Thank you for helping me do just that. After a global pandemic altered many of my plans for completing this dissertation, most especially the structures I relied on for childcare, I found out quickly who my kin are. My neighborhood friends risked exposure to "the virwus," as Finn calls it, because of our bonds of affection and their desire to see me meet this goal. Thank you, Natalee, Else, Kristine, and Katie. Thank you Kim, Lena the birthday twin, and Marianne. Thank you Cheryl, for the peaceful retreat of your little farm in the middle of the suburbs. My in-laws watched my son for long afternoons and even longer Sundays so I could write. Their belief in me has been unwavering. Thank you Grammie and Grandpa (Joan and Rick). Alex, without your support during my Pepperdine years, I wouldn't have made it this far. My family in New Mexico stepped up, too, opening up their homes to me so I could have a room of my own. Thank you, Cash, for giving up your room. Thank you, Seth, for all your patience with Finn and for sharing your horses with us. Thank you, Anthony, for watching Finn like I watched you when I was seventeen. Thank you, Joe and Yvonne. There aren't enough words. Thank you, Mom. Your indispensable help in the final weeks of writing helped me quilt together this dissertation. Thank you, Dad. Any story I tell is because you taught me how. Thank you, David, for going where I go and staying where I stay, for all the little ways you supported me over the years of pursuing this degree and writing this dissertation. Of course, thank you to the One through whom all is made possible. v VITA OF MICHELLE NICOLE PETTY GRUE

Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal, 2018

Esther Fitzpatrick is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, where she specializes in education, postcolonial identities, arts-based research, decolonising methodologies, and culturally responsive pedagogy. She has published in journals such as Qualitative Inquiry, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, and The Ethnographic Edge. Mohamed Alansari Is a research fellow at the faculty of education and social work, University of Auckland. He is a member of the Quantitative Data Analysis and Research (Quant-DARE) unit where he is responsible for managing and performing secondary analyses on large-scale data sets and providing consultation services to staff and students on statistical matters. His research areas include the social psychology of higher education, and students' academic aspirations. Abstract: Using a series of poetry conversations, the authors give voice to their experiences of the doctoral process to illuminate the emotional and affective-political experience, and engage with the neo-liberal powers of the doctoral journey. They write poems to remember the body, and bring justice to the many bodies that have experienced the chill inside the "ivory tower."