Graduation Year
2020
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree
Ph.D.
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Degree Granting Department
Secondary Education
Major Professor
Patricia Daniel Jones, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Mandie Dunn, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Michael Sherry, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Jennifer Wolgemuth, Ph.D.
Keywords
Motherscholar, EE DocMama, Pragmatist Feminism, Autonomous Learner
Abstract
In this poetic autoethnography, exploration of the feeling and the experience of developing persistence as an English Education doctoral student mother is expressed through analysis of artifacts gathered over a 20-year period inclusive of the years of graduate study, becoming and remaining an English teacher and professor, while paralleling the mothering years. A metaphorical parallel is established between breastfeeding and completing the doctoral degree, thus the phrase "nursing the narrative." Expression is storied through poetry in the voices of the persona of the English teacher, the mother, the doctoral student, and the intersectionality of the roles of each as the EE DocMama, which is the English Education Doctoral Student Mother.
Scholar Commons Citation
Mallo, Krista S., "Persistence Like a Mother: Nursing the Narrative toward Doctoral Completion in English Education—A Poetic Autoethnography" (2021). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/8560
