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Caroline M. Grant, Editor-in-Chief, writes the column Mama at the Movies for Literary Mama. She is the Associate Director of the Sustainable Arts Foundation and co-editor, with Elrena Evans, of the anthology Mama, PhD: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life (Rutgers University Press, 2008). She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, where she taught classes on film, women's studies, American literature, and writing; she has also taught at Stanford University and the San Francisco Art Institute. Her essays have been published in a number of journals and anthologies. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two sons; she writes about family on her blog and, with Lisa Harper, about food at Learning to Eat. Visit her website for more information, including clips from her radio and television events.
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Mama, PhD Reading in Berkeley
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by Caroline M. Grant on November 11, 2008
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Mama, PhD Reading at University Press Books
2430 Bancroft Way, Berkeley
Thursday, November 13th, 6 PM
"All those sleepless nights and dirty diapers and baby food in your hair — where’s the discursive construction of motherhood when you need it?"
--Catherine Newman
Higher Education could be an enormously family-friendly environment, a model for other workplaces, but the academy is failing, and women are leaving. Join contributors to Mama, PhD -- Caroline Grant, Lisa Harper, Jennifer Eyre White and Irena Smith -- in a reading and conversation about the challenges and joys of trying to reconcile body and brain as they navigate academic careers.
For more information, please visit Mama, PhD.
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