The Wabash Center's Dialogue On Teaching

Episode 172 - Motherhood and Teaching: Ekaterina Lomperis, Lakisha Lockhart, and Sarah Farmer

October 13, 2022 The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Season 1 Episode 172
The Wabash Center's Dialogue On Teaching
Episode 172 - Motherhood and Teaching: Ekaterina Lomperis, Lakisha Lockhart, and Sarah Farmer
Show Notes

So often scholarship is mired in a narrative of guilt for women who choose the mother. Too often mothering is thought to be a squandering of time for those pursuing tenure or promotion. What does it mean to intellectual communities if motherhood were to be embraced? How is the scholarship of teaching enriched by those who are mothering? What is the detriment of living in a bifurcated identity that silos mothering away from career and vocation? How does motherhood impact the twenty-first century identity politics of scholarship?