Hidden Burnout

Although one of the fastest growing groups of faculties in American higher education, Asian faculty have been least studied in relation to burnout, emotional labour and participation with leadership in higher education. This chapter explores how Asian faculty may experience hidden burnout which gets missed by the culture of academia's Asian productivity expectations and by our culture's expectation of emotional containment, as well as by the long-standing impact of the model minority myth. These dynamics can often contribute to a lack of disclosures and actual institutional action. The chapter deconstructs and stages the interplay of emotional exhaustion that occurs among Asian faculty, drawing on theories in higher education, critical race theory, and organizational psychology, as well as Asian American studies, to understand it in multiple layers. The discussion focuses on the role faculty members hold as having to be “excessively productive” while at the same time being “neutral,” “emotion free” and “compliant” player/institutional representatives.

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