Inside Higher Ed: Race and Careers
It was just a quick aside, but it was one that speakers and audience members returned to:
Lisa Outar, an assistant professor of English at St. John’s University, in New York, mentioned she had seen how many departments want to hire people who “embody what you teach.” Her “visible Indianness” wasn’t what she was thinking about as her top issue when she did her job search — she was more focused on finding a university with a diverse student body, where people would be excited by her interest in Caribbean literature.
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