ABSTRACT
In this dialogical essay, the co-authors employ an autotheoretical approach to understanding their practices of collecting and displaying quotations on Post-it Notes. These notes outline the spaces not provided by the official documents academic women are typically asked to produce over the course of their careers. The practice of citation that these notes embody forms a counternarrative for academic success that encompasses the nonlinearity and multiplicity of embodied human life. In contrast to the master narrative of academic life emphasizing singular focus and linear progress from training to tenure, this counternarrative proposes an unfolding, iterative path of resilient commitment and a fullness of narrative that includes multiple interests and commitments.
