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.

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sj Miller is Deputy Director of Educational Equity Supports and Services at the Metro Center of NYU and Associate Professor of Literacy Studies at CU Boulder. sj is a committee member, consultant, advisory board member, mentor, co-editor, and co-chair of numerous organizations, committees, and publications. sj is the recipient of numerous awards with works appearing in a number of journals.

Nelson M. Rodriguez teaches sexuality and queer studies in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at The College of New Jersey. His research areas span queer studies and education, critical masculinity studies, and Foucault studies. His most recent publications are Queer Masculinities: A Critical Reader in Educationand Queering Straight Teachers: Discourse and Identity in Education.

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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 AcademiaQueer ing Academia William F. Pinar: The Constant in My Life Contributors