"Don’t Take Your Guns to Town": Academic/Administrative Life as the Old West

Bryant Keith Alexander

doi:10.1525/irqr.2015.8.3.270

"Don’t Take Your Guns to Town": Academic/Administrative Life as the Old West

Bryant Keith Alexander

Communication Studies

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Abstract

This performative essay explores how the author’s childhood obsession with Westerns and cowboy/Indian movies bleed into his current life as an academic and particularly in his current role as an academic dean. The essay is structured with a series of comparative images between Westerns and academic/administrative life.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	270-279
Journal	International Review of Qualitative Research
Volume	8
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1525/irqr.2015.8.3.270
State	Published - Jan 1 2015

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