Academic Writing and Identity Constructions

Louise Thomas is a consultant in Educational Leadership, and Honorary Fellow of the Australian Catholic University, Australia. Her research interests include identity constructions of teachers, leaders and researchers.Anne Reinertsen is Professor in Education, Practical Knowledge and Philosophy at Queen Maud University College, Norway. Her research interests include philosophical and qualitative research, research methodologies and learning theories.

“The book is a nice collection of thoughts written by authors from varied backgrounds, but altogether, they make a virtue of the possibilities and complexities of genuine engagement in scholarly writing. … a great contribution to the much-needed gaps in research about complexity of academic identity construction. … This edited collection is a fruitful read and a valuable contribution to the debate on academic writing and identity-relevant issues and will undeniably appeal to academics who write their ‘self.’” (Mohsen Shirazizadeh and Foruq Rezvani Rad, Higher Education, Vol. 81, 2021)“The book is a ‘breath of writing-fresh-air’ and an innovative addition to academic writing research. It is highly recommended to scholars working in education and educational discourse research.” (Baicheng Zhang, Higher Education, Vol. 80, 2020)

• Chapter 1. Stepping into the flow... Li(f)ve decomforting academic writing: smooth and striated spaces for being becoming performances; Anne B. Reinertsen and Louise M. Thomas.- Chapter 2. Territories and categories of academic writer: Possibilitising through the act/art of writing; Louise M. Thomas.- Chapter 3. The end of criticism producing unconscious: Non-personal academic writing; Anne B. Reinertsen.- Chapter 4. Editing academic writing: Productive erosion and erosive processes; Felicity McArdle.- Chapter 5. Being ourselves, naming ourselves, writing ourselves: Indigenous Australian women disrupting what it is to be academic within the Academy; Bronwyn Fredericks and Nereda White (with Sandra Phillips, Tracey Bunda, Marlene Longbottom and Debbie Bargallie).- Chapter 6. Academic writing from the depths: An auto-ethnographic and organisational account; Agnes Bosanquet.- Chapter 7. Working with text(ures) in academia: Be fast, even while standing still!; Ninni Sandvik, Ann SofiLarsen, Nina Johannesen and Bente Ulla.- Chapter 8. Making sense of reflexivity: A post-humanistic account; Nina Lunkka and Katja Sutela.- Chapter 9. Becoming a technical female: Academic writing in the cube farm; Melissa Gregg.