Don’t Take Your Guns to Town: Academic/Administrative Life as the Old West
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2015
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 Publication Citation
Alexander, B.K. (2015). Don’t Take Your Guns to Town: Academic/Administrative Life as the Old West, International Review of Qualitative Research, 8.3, 270–279.
Digital Commons @ LMU & LLS Citation
Alexander, Bryant Keith, "Don’t Take Your Guns to Town: Academic/Administrative Life as the Old West" (2015). Communication Studies Faculty Works. 97.
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/comm_fac/97