ABSTRACT
Employing a spatial metaphor and the act of crossing fine lines, I self-reflexively situate myself in a particular academic institution by using early and late career documents written by myself and evaluators to analyze embodiment in the split spaces of Women's Studies and an English department. By writing this article as my final career narrative, I illuminate the theory and practice of both life narrative and career narrative and highlight their effects on how a writer forms an ongoing academic subjectivity. Because I was not an ideal academic worker, an English Studies department was a troubled space.
