Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-18-2018
Publication Title
Text and Performance Quarterly
Volume
38
Issue Number
3
First Page
153
Last Page
169
DOI
10.1080/10462937.2018.1461918
Keywords
Academic professionalism, J.L. Austin’s exemption, passion, queer studies, theatre
Abstract
Recent analysis of academia credits neoliberalism for its destabilization. Neoliberalism alone does not explain academics’ conflicted attachments to a precarious professional life or the tendency to embrace normative conceptions of passion and shun professional decline. The quarantine on decline is analogous to the exemption that J.L. Austin imposed on theatre: both deny constitutive power to certain statements and harbor a fear of queerness. Four essays published in Text & Performance Quarterly illustrate how academics quarantine professional fears and doubts. A fifth finds that the deterioration of professional accomplishments loosens normative associations to make space for other, queer relations.
Recommended Citation
Kathleen F. McConnell. "Fear of etiolation in the age of professional passion" Text and Performance Quarterly (2018): 153-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2018.1461918
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Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Text and Performance Quarterly on April 18, 2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/10462937.2018.1461918
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