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Direct linkERIC Number: EJ1439214
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Sep
Pages: 27
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-096X
EISSN: EISSN-1939-9006
"It's Like Writing Yourself into a Codependent Relationship with Someone Who Doesn't Even Want You!" Emotional Labor, Intimacy, and the Academic Job Market in Rhetoric and Composition
Jennifer Sano-Franchini
College Composition and Communication, v68 n1 p98-124 2016
Drawing on forty-eight interviews with individuals who participated on the academic job market in rhetoric and composition between 2010 and 2015, this essay shows how conceptualizing the academic job search as an intimate endeavor can offer insights for understanding the rhetorical production of affective binds within institutional contexts. This essay considers the affective experience and emotional labor of candidates on the academic job market.
Descriptors: Labor Market, Job Search Methods, Higher Education, Writing (Composition), Rhetoric, Employment Opportunities, Tenure, Nontenured Faculty, Graduate Students, Job Applicants, Attitudes, Work Attitudes, Personnel Management, Search Committees (Personnel), Interpersonal Communication, Emotional Experience
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