ABSTRACT
Grounded in narrative theory, this book offers a case study of a liberal arts college’s use of narrative to help build identity, community, and collaboration within the college faculty across a range of disciplines, including history, psychology, sociology, theatre and dance, literature, anthropology, and communication. Exploring issues of methodology and their practical application, this narrative project speaks to the construction of identity for the liberal arts in today’s higher education climate. Narrative, Identity, and Academic Community focuses on the ways a cross-disciplinary emphasis on narrative can impact institutions in North America and contribute to the discussion of strategies to foster bottom-up, faculty-driven collaboration and innovation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section I|68 pages
Interrogating and Framing Reality
chapter 1|14 pages
Old and New Technologies of Asynchronous Communication
chapter 2|16 pages
Onitsha Market Literature
section |5 pages
Section I Summary: An Author Conversation
section II|54 pages
Narratives at the Intersection of the Public and Private
chapter 5|20 pages
Finding Story in Unexpected Places
chapter 6|18 pages
The “Not Yet Pregnant”
chapter 7|14 pages
Letter-Writing and the Eighteenth-Century Scientific Community
section |6 pages
Section II Summary: An Author Conversation
section III|57 pages
Performing Bodies, Creating Stories
chapter 10|20 pages
Stories and Objects
chapter 11|10 pages
The Currency of Stories
section |4 pages
Section III Summary: An Author Conversation