ABSTRACT
The author illustrates her own experiences within the intertwining discourses that include discourse of race and gender in higher education, native speaker/nonnative speaker discourses, and last, the discourse of dual cultural frames in gender roles. She explores the interactions and relations between faculty and students of similar cultural backgrounds by reflecting on her own experience as a young Asian female scholar working with Asian female students in a North American university. She illustrates the complex relationships of gender, race, ethnicity, and the inherited power relations that perpetuate the positioning of minority female faculty and students in academia. She narrates her own journey of becoming an academic in North America and her own experiences working with Asian students as a teacher, professor, and supervisor. She presents a contextualized understanding of her experiences within larger sociocultural and sociopolitical contexts.
