This piece situates me in a set of sour in-laws relationships that also involved the legal system and it is in the form of autoethnography.
"Barriers melt like grilled cheese at the table when you're dancing for your supper like the old vaudevillians."
“When you donate to The AutoEthnographer, you help us ensure our future and fulfill our mission.“
Patricia Leavy·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysCelebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024Reflections on Method
··11 min readWriting fiction allows me to document reality and to reimagine it, just as we can always reimagine ourselves. And that is why we need stories.
Emerging Immigrant’s Accents is about how language impacts our self image as we come to understand ourselves and our cultural beings.
Dilek Isler Hayirli·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaEducationFrom the EditorsReflections on MethodVolume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
··13 min read"I had not been aware that this emotional research was also performing autoethnography, collecting memories from the field"
"Censorship via banned books is an attempt to censor the future but the youth of today will not allow their voices to be silenced."
I use autoethnography to provide first-hand observations in the predominantly conservative English classroom as a way to analyze and understand a rise in toxic masculinity and its detrimental impacts.
“Entanglements of the Mind, Soul, and Body” details our journey as researchers utilizing narrative collage and collage portraits as a tool for data analysis.
We invite you to participate in National Poetry month with us by reading and writing over at The AutoEthnographer's new Facebook group.
This work of experimental poetry examines the interaction between the happy user of the open source format and the automated surface.
Leavy is more than the mother of the social fiction movement in the social sciences; she’s its fairy godmother.