ABSTRACT
Focusing on three first-year evangelical undergraduates, this chapter considers the compartmentalization of evangelical identities in academic writing, with special attention to how evangelicals’ perceptions of academic writing as impersonal and of faith as personal interact, supporting the compartmentalization of evangelical identities in their academic writing. By exploring the differentiation and privatization of “the religious” in the context of the academic writing of evangelical undergraduates at a public university, this chapter brings attention to evangelicals who may not wish to enact faith in academic writing as well as those who may want to but nevertheless frequently compartmentalize evangelical identities in their writing for college.
