1st Edition
Novice LGBTQ+ Scholars’ Practices in Writing for Scholarly Publication
This collection brings together perspectives from early-career LGBTQ+ scholars as they navigate the scholarly publishing landscape, highlighting their experiences and challenges in providing greater representation within the academic community and existing scholarship.
The volume reflects on the ways in which scholarly output is intricately linked with scholarly identity and the challenges LGBTQ+ scholars face when their scholarly and gender and sexual identities can often seem to be in conflict. The book showcases perspectives from doctoral students and early-career scholars from around the world working across different disciplines, supported by case studies, autoethnographic narratives, and discourse analysis, to explore key issues facing those who identify as LGBTQ+ or who wish to research and publish on topics relating to gender and sexual identity. These include negotiating positionality, the role of writing styles in identity construction for queer scholars, the ways in which publishing gatekeepers perpetuate heteronormativity, and the part support networks play for researchers.
The book gives voice to a wider range of scholars towards creating a more inclusive publishing environment and will be of interest to students and researchers who identify as LGBTQ+ and those working in such fields as applied linguistics, English for academic purposes, queer theory, and gender studies.
Contents
List of Contributors
1. About scholarly publication and early-career LGBTQ+ scholars
Sharon McCulloch
SECTION 1: Challenges and solutions
2. Fighting for authenticity along the LGBTQ+ journey towards scholarly publication: Is it time for a queering of academic literacies?
Micky Ross
3. Blooming with Brazilian queer studies: Reflecting on experiences of co-authoring and publishing with LGBTQ+ academics
Luan Carpes Barros Cassal
4. The perpetuation of heteropatriarchal dynamics in scholarly gatekeeping: Analysing reviewers’ feedback from the perspective of LGBTQ+ early-career scholars
Helena Torres-Purroy and Sònia Mas-Alcolea
5. Marginalising the marginalised: Challenges of embarking on LGBTQ+-related research for publication
Jamie David Hopkin and Victoria Barnett-Simpson
6. Support networks and open discussions about academic publishing: Dealing with difficult data and (potential) collaborators
Frazer Heritage
SECTION 2: Visibility and intersectionality
7. Living straight, writing queer: Experiences with academic publishing as a closeted Indian woman
Arunima Theraja
8. Coming out as queer: Troubling the strictures for early-career researchers in academic publishing
Tierney Marey
9. Researching and publishing on African sexualities: Methods and challenges
Zanele Nyoni-Wood
10. Academic publishing as a novice lesbian scholar: An intersectional experience
Mabel Encinas
11. Conclusion and final thoughts
Sharon McCulloch
Index
Biography
Sharon McCulloch is a senior lecturer in language and education in the School of Psychology and Humanities at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. Her research interests lie in EAP and academic literacies, especially how second language student writers learn to write and the ways in which institutional and social contexts, including gender and geolinguistic status, affect professional academic writers.
