Parenting and academia — never easy bedfellows — are particularly difficult for single mothers balancing high teaching loads. As a divorced Indian-American single mother and an academic, here is what has been my experience.
She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Central Florida. She is the author of Kashmir's Necropolis: Literary, Cultural and Visual Texts, Bloomsbury 2025.
She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Central Florida. She is the author of Kashmir's Necropolis: Literary, Cultural and Visual Texts, Bloomsbury 2025.
Parenting and academia — never easy bedfellows — are particularly difficult for single mothers balancing high teaching loads. As a divorced Indian-American single mother and an academic, here is what has been my experience.
BY Amrita Ghosh 16 January 2022
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