"Narratives of TESOL Professionals: Experiences Navigating the Doctoral Program"
Co-edited by a SLAT Professor, SLAT Alumna, and SLAT Student
SLAT is thrilled to share that “Narratives of TESOL Professionals: Experiences Navigating the Doctoral Program,” which is co-edited by Dr. Hayriye Kayi-Aydar (SLAT Faculty), Dr. Angel Steadman (Assistant Professor at Highline College, former MA TESL & PhD SLAT student) and Kate Shea (current PhD SLAT student), is now available for pre-order. To order your copy, please go to the link above (embedded in the title) and use the following discount code: NOTP4151 (case sensitive so enter exactly as you see here).
This edited collection provides insight into the lived experiences of recent graduates of various English Applied Linguistics and/or TESOL doctoral programs in North America. These are the stories that hardly find a place in academic spaces. Dr. Kayi-Aydar, Dr. Steadman, and Ms. Shea wanted them to be heard. Given the “identity focus” and nature of the narratives in the chapters, a lot of emotion labor has gone into this body of work. We believe that the book has a lot to offer for doctoral students (in various disciplines, not just TESOL) as well as the faculty who advise and support them. Here are the chapter titles:
1. Foreword
Hayriye Kayı-Aydar, Angel Steadman, and Kate Shea
2. Preface: Understanding Doctoral Student Experience and Intersectional Identities in TESOL Programs: A Narrative Approach
Hayriye Kayı-Aydar, Angel Steadman, and Kate Shea
3. Interlude to a Degree: Autoethnographic Reflections on Dissertating After a Cancer Diagnosis
Silvia Vaccino-Salvadore
4. En La Brega: Puerto Rican Female Scholars Navigating U.S. Educational Pathways
Nidza V. Marichal and Raisa Ankeny
5. A Third Space where I Went into a Slump: Struggles, Inner Conflicts, and Reflections
Siti Juwariyah
6. PhD Pursuit: A Doctoral Mother’s Journey to Graduation
Yuliya Summers
7. Spatializing Researcher Identity Through the Multiple Spaces During Dissertation Writing and Motherhood Life
Inggrit Olivin Tanasale
8. Affordances and Constraints of Pursuing a TESOL PhD in an English Studies Model
Md Mijanur Rahman
9. Learning to Teach as an Outsider: The Stories of a Beginning Transnational Educator
Yue Bian
10. Grappling With Native-Speakerism as an International Multilingual Researcher: When Idealism Clashes With Reality
Yiran Xu
11. A Virtual Writing Community: Stories of Personal and Professional Growth
Elnaz Kia, Idée Edalatishams, and Fatemeh Bordbarjavidi
12. International First-Generation College Students Pursue TESOL PhD Programs in the U.S.: Navigating the Profession as Emerging Scholars
Lei Jiang, Shuzhan Li, and Wenyang Sun
13. Developing a Network of Support Through Collaboration: My Academic Socialization Journey as a PhD Student
Wendy Li
14. Spreading My Wings in Academia: An International Doctoral Student Developing Scholarly Identity Through Empowering Mentoring Relationships
Anna Sanczyk-Cruz
15. Unveiling the Hidden Curriculum: The Mentoring and Socialization Experiences of an International TESOL Student
Fares J. Karam and Amanda Kibler
16. A Few Final Words and Future Directions
Hayriye Kayı-Aydar, Kate Shea, and Angel Steadman