Two Truths and a Lie: Performing Professorhood/Motherhood

The following is autoethnographic performative writing that invites the reader into one woman’s experiences of simultaneously becoming a new mother and professor. The writing weaves the autobiographic tale of her new job as an assistant professor with a dramatic performance text based on a graduate student’s ethnographic interview about the birth of her first daughter. Experimental in nature, this script seeks to problematize the relationship of academic selves and others through creative writing.