Pathways to Academe

Academe is a landscape well-guarded and gated, kept from non-traditional scholars and practitioners by expectations set around the prestige of publishing, the advanced degree—and, more subtly, the postures of scholarship which are in nature like a secret handshake, signals for a closed society that meets in plain sight. In these chapters, authors detail their beginnings, the paths they have chosen to follow, or which they have been given no choice but to trail blaze.