Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: A Fruitcake Imaginary?
Theorising Academic Self-Fashioning
Method: Exegesis, Language Play
References
Chapter 2: Stories, Games, Language, Imagination
Imagination
Numerical Im-Personation
Learning, Stories, Teaching, Identity Work
In Defence of the Subtle Story
Metaphors: Body to Imagination
Games
Language: A Semiotics of Meaning-Making
References
Chapter 3: Academia as Unhomely Habitus?
Entry into Academia: Learning Self-Confidence
Entry-Point Trial: The Doctorate

Academic Writing: The Textual Construction of Self
Life (Academic Life) and Its Players: Gender, Class and Cultural Effects
Learning Advisors and Academic Developers: A Metacognitive Overview of the Field of Play
Letter Home (December 1996), a Kind of Story
References
Chapter 4: Teaching, Research, Service, Self
Teaching
Research
Service
Finding the Field...
The Work That Is Invisible in Audit Sheets
Putting Service in Its Place: Developing from the Inside
Dichotomies, Paradox, Irony
References
Chapter 5: Taking Stock of Identity During Change

Academic Borderland Crossing: Tough Terrain, Stories as Coinage for Identity
A Shapeshifting Story
An Example of Self-Audit
The Bigger Picture: Longitudinal Influences
References
Chapter 6: Personalising Professionalism: Balance, Risk, Chance, Change...
Handling Academic Changes: Finding a Stance for Endurance
Imaginative Intelligence?
Stepping into the Grizzly Rose Country Bar, Nightclub and Music Hall
References
Chapter 7: Your Dance, Your Self, Your Story: The Fruitcake Imaginary
Employing the Imagination
Fruitcake Ruminations
Life
Work
Balance

The Fruitcake Imaginary
Fruitcake Praxis
The Girl Who Fell in Love with a Salmon
References
References
Index