The memoirs in this collection represent a cross-section of critical reflections by a queerly diverse set of individuals on their experiences inhabiting a variety of spaces within the field of education. In their stories, the authors share how they queered and are continuing to queer the academy in relation to questions of teaching, research, policy, and/or administration. Their memoirs speak across generations of queer educators and scholars; collectively their work highlights an array of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. As snapshots in time, the memoirs can be taken up as archive and studied in order to gain perspective on the issues facing queers in the academy across various intersections of identities related to ethnicity, culture, language, (a)gender, (a)sexuality, (dis)ability, socio-economic status, religion, age, veteran status, health status, and more. By way of the memoirs in this volume, a richer body of queer knowledge is offered that can be pulled from and infused into the academic and personal contexts of the work of educators queering academia.

Table of Contents:
Jen Gilbert: Foreword – Acknowledgments – sj Miller and Nelson M. Rodriguez: Introduction: The Critical Praxis of Queer Memoirs in Education – Part 1: Queer Paranoia: To Risk or Not to Risk – Adam J. Greteman: Contingent Labor, Contingently Queer – Summer Pennell: Queer Paranoia: Worrying About and Through a Queer Dissertation Study – Ryan Burns and Janet D. Johnson: Reconciling the Personal and Professional: Coming Out From the Classroom Closet – Part 2: Queered Tensions: Beyond the Academy – Sara Staley and Bethy Leonardi: Remaining Stubbornly Faithful: What Queering Academia Does to Queer Teacher-Scholars – Michael Borgstrom: Inside. Out. Queer Time in Midcareer – Kristen A. Renn: How I Met Foucault: An Intellectual Career in, Around, and Near Queer Theory – Part 3: Queering Academic Spaces: Renarrating Lives – Nelson M. Rodriguez: From Doctoral Student to Dr. Sweetie Darling: My Queer(ing) Journey in Academia – Jenny Kassen and Alicia Lapointe: Working With and Within: Weaving Queer Spaces With Cycles of Resistance – Stephanie Anne Shelton: Adopting a Queer Pedagogy as a Teaching Assistant – Michael Wenk: Sanctioning Unsanctioned Texts: The True Story of a Gay Writer – Part 4: Misrecognition: From Invisibility Into Visibility– sj Miller: (Un)becoming Trans*: Every Breath You Take and Every … – Kerrita K. Mayfield: Queering the Inquiry Body: Critical Science Teaching From the Margins – Darrell Cleveland Hucks: Intersectional Warrior: Battling the Onslaught of Layered Microaggressions in the Academy – Erich N. Pitcher: Undone and (Mis)Recognized: Disorienting Experiences of a Queer, Trans* Educator – Part 5: The Political Is Personal – Catherine A. Lugg: Slam Dunk on Tenure? Not So Fast … – Kamden K. Strunk, Douglas R. Bristol, and William C. Takewell: Queering South Mississippi: Simple and Seemingly Impossible Work – Scotty M. Secrist: Smear the Queer: A Critical Memoir – Thabo Msibi: "I heard it from a good source": Queer Desire and Homophobia in a South African Higher Education Institution – Part 6: Queered All the Way Through – David Lee Carlson: A Profound Moment of Passing – Dana M. Stachowiak: Being Queer in Academia↔Queering Academia – William F. Pinar: The Constant in My Life – Contributors