Sharing Leadership in Co-Authorship, Co-Publication, and Building Collective Wisdom

Doctoral students from the Applied Linguistics Department, Nasiba Norova, Vannessa Quintana Sarria, and Iuliia Fakhrutdinova wrote a chapter Re-Envisioning Academic Competition Sharing Leadership in Co-Authorship, Co-Publication, and Building Collective Wisdom for an edited volume Doctoral Students’ Identities and Emotional Wellbeing in Applied Linguistics, Autoethnographic Accounts edited by Bedrettin Yazan, Ethan Trinh, Luis Javier Pentón Herrera.

“This chapter, theoretically guided by a multilingual competence framework, presents our experience of collaboration as doctoral international students in an article devoted to language policy. This autoethnographic study draws on our field notes, self-reflections, text messages, transcripts of video recorded Zoom meetings of our research project, and an interview with our professor. We argue that our collaborative work, beyond securing publication opportunities, became a pathway for transformative learning and an empowering navigational tool to thrive as junior scholars and graduate students in the United States. We also discuss how this critical and collaborative journey strengthened our personal relationships, sharpened our views and stances about the “publish or perish” culture, assisted us in establishing a collegial community, and built trust among us.”

The chapter is finally officially out! Check out the preview PDF of Chapter 12 on Routledge’s website!