Editors Thinking Stiffs: An Introduction
Part One
Fathers in Theory Fathers in Praxis: Merging Work and Parenting
Amitava Kumar Disney Dad
Lennard J. Davis Gaining a Daughter: A Father’s Transgendered Tale
David G. Campbell Gifts from the Sea
F. D. Reeve The Luck of the Irish
Jerald Walker Shifting the Tectonic Plates of Academia
John W. Wells Hair-Raising Experiences
Joseph Gelfer A River Runs through It: Queer Theory and Fatherhood
David Haven Blake On Writing and Rearing
Ira L. Strauber Doing Things with Words
J. Aaron Simmons On Fecundity Fidelity and Expectation: Reflections on Philosophy and Fatherhood
Gregory Orfalea Sheathing the Sword
Part Two
Family Made: The Difference of Alternative or Delayed Fatherhood
Robert Mayer Weighed but Found Wanting: Ten Years of Being Measured and Divided
Ralph James Savarese Vespers Matins Lauds: The Life of a Liberal Arts College Professor
Mark Montgomery How White Was My Prairie
Robert Gray Meniscus
John Bryant Once Was Lost
Mark Osteen Shared Attention: Hearing Cameron’s Voice
Kevin G. Barnhurst Accidental Academic Deliberate Dad
Andrew Hazucha Late Fatherhood among the Baptists
William Marsiglio Being a Dad Studying Fathers: Personal Reflections
Eric H. du Plessis Single Dad in Academia: Fatherhood and the Redemption of Scholarship
Stanford W. Carpenter Superheroes
Part Three
Forging New Fatherhoods: Ambitions Altered and Transformed
Jason Thompson Maybe It Is Just Math: Fatherhood and Disease in Academia
Mike Augspurger Dreaming of Direction: Reconciling Fatherhood and Ambition
Ting Man Tsao Making a Home for Family and Scholarship
Jeffrey B. Leak Change Is Here but We Need to Talk about It: Reflections on Black Fatherhood in the Academy
John Domini Vocabularies and Their Subversion: A Reminiscence
Charles Bane Balancing Diapers and a Doctorate: The Adventures of a Single Dad in Grad School
Alex Vernon It’s a Chapter-Book Huh: Teaching Writing and Early Fatherhood
Colin Irvine Pitcher This: An Academic Dad’s Award-Winning Attempt to Be in Two Places at Once
Chris Gabbard Odd Quirks
Gary H. McCullough The Precarious Private Life of Professor Father Fiction Chef and Other Possible Poignancies
