Episode 172 - Motherhood and Teaching: Ekaterina Lomperis, Lakisha Lockhart, and Sarah Farmer
Dialogue on Teaching, Wabash Center’s podcast series, is hosted by Nancy Lynne Westfield, Ph.D., Director of the Wabash Center. Amplifying the Wabash Center’s mission, the podcasts focus upon issues of teaching and learning in theology and religion within colleges, university, seminaries, as well as the publics impacted by these schools. Dialogues with faculty and administrators working in the wide range of institutional contexts illumine the complexity of teaching and the teaching life.
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?