Productivity, Professionalism, and Parenting in Academia

Drawing on time use diary analysis, this unique and detailed study fills in the larger narrative about what it takes, hour by hour, to navigate academic motherhood with a rhetoric and composition career. This book will interest rhetoric, writing and composition, labor and professional issues, gender and equality and work-life balance.

Christine E. Tulley is Professor of English at the University of Findlay, USA.

Preface 1. Motherhood, Academia, and Time Use: A Network of Reciprocal Relationships 2. Time Use Study Within Higher Education and Methodology for Productivity, Professionalism, and Parenting in Academia: Rhet Comp Moms 3. Scholarship 4. Teaching 5. Administration 6. What Time Use Diaries Reveal about Rhet Comp Moms...and The Discipline 7. Sustainable Rhet Comp Mom Scholarly Practices in a Post-Covid Era 8. Postscript: The Timing of Children 9. Afterword, Hannah Benefiel 10. Appendices Index