Her Own Voice: Coming Out in Academia with Bipolar Disorder

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dc.contributor.advisorJackson, Rebecca
dc.contributor.authorRainey, Tiffany D.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLeake, Eric
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBalzhiser, Deb
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-14T20:07:28Z
dc.date.available2020-10-14T20:07:28Z
dc.date.issued2019-08
dc.description.abstractAutoethnography is a powerful tool for fleshing out one’s sense of self in context with other selves, for creating empathetic bonds between writer and reader, for interrogating difference, and for challenging the dominant narrative. For example, through autoethnographic research, one has the authority to confront pervasive stigmas linked to mental illness in academia, where mental illness is discussed largely in third person. As evidenced by the pervasive themes of narrative identity/reclamation in mental health rhetoric, there is space in English studies for both the genre and topic. Margaret Price, in her book Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life, discusses ways that persons with mental illness make rhetorical gains through writing. Further, Linda J. Morrison argues that narrative is essential to empowering the Mad studies movement. This thesis attempts to get at the ways a student-scholar can challenge misrepresentations of individual and group identity in the dominant narrative. In it, I bear down on issues of agency in self-representation by asking, how does a person with bipolar disorder carve out a narrative space for herself in a culture that shames, devalues, distrusts, or otherwise ignores the mentally ill? Because of the connections between mental illness, counternarratives, and “rhetoricability,” the author is positioned to help shift the conversation from rumor and “the chart” to language that is more inclusive and humanizing.
dc.description.departmentEnglish
dc.formatText
dc.format.extent88 pages
dc.format.medium1 file (.pdf)
dc.identifier.citationRainey, T. (2019). <i>Her own voice: Coming out in academia with bipolar disorder</i> (Unpublished thesis). Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/12766
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectMental illness
dc.subjectMental health
dc.subjectDisclosure
dc.subjectRhetoric
dc.subjectWriting
dc.subjectComposition
dc.subjectBipolar disorder
dc.subjectMood disorder
dc.subjectComing out
dc.subjectAutoethnography
dc.subjectSelf culture writing
dc.titleHer Own Voice: Coming Out in Academia with Bipolar Disorder
dc.typeThesis
thesis.degree.departmentEnglish
thesis.degree.disciplineRhetoric and Composition
thesis.degree.grantorTexas State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts
txstate.departmentEnglish

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