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Bridging cultures : international women faculty transforming the US academy

Title
Bridging cultures : international women faculty transforming the US academy / edited by Sarah R. Robbins, Sabine H. Smith, Federica Santini.
Publication
Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2011], ©2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Robbins, Sarah
  • Santini, Federica
  • Smith, Sabine H., 1963-
Description
xlii, 187 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • Women college teachers > United States
  • Teachers, Foreign > United States
  • Universities and colleges > United States > Faculty
  • Multiculturalism > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Professing in a foreign tongue: a Central European perspective on English studies / Katarina Gephardt -- East meets West: an Asian woman teacher educator's journey enacting global pedagogy in the American South / Guichun Zong -- Perfectly ambivalent: how German am I? / Sabine H. Smith -- The stranger in the classroom: the professional acculturation of three Romanian scholars / Darina Lepadatu, Cristina Gheorghiu-Stephens, Gilbert Lepadatu -- Disclosure, dialogue, and coming of age in the academy / Gertrude Tinker Sachs ... [et al.] -- Language is the house of being / Federica Santini -- Response 1: Race, identity, and international faculty on US campuses / Satya P. Mohanty -- Response 2: In defense of encapsulated marginality / Edward K. Chan -- Response 3: Alien alliances: an Austrian academic reads US scholars' stories / Ulla Kriebernegg -- Response 4: In pursuit of excellence, diversity, and globalization: the art of leveraging international assets in academia / Steve O. Michael -- Response 5: Still becoming / Rosangela Boyd -- Epilogue: Synthesizing stories and making connections / Lori Howard ... [et al.] -- Questions: Reflection, discussion, and cultural change / Federica Santini, Sabine H. Smith.
ISBN
  • 9780761854951
  • 0761854959
LCCN
99948535788
OCLC
  • ocn754724674
  • 754724674
  • SCSB-5637758
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Columbia University Libraries