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Interview with Award-Winning Author Patricia Leavy on Literary Research

All Education News, Interviews & Reviews Reflections on Method Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·July 18, 2022·14 min read

"In my interview with award-winning author Patricia Leavy on literary research, we also discuss her evolution from academic to novelist, her genre of "social fiction," and her latest novels series, Celestial Bodies."

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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: Political Correctness – The Dilemma of The Young

Tala Toubassi·

All Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Autoethnographic Writing Volume 1, Issue 1 (2021)

·August 27, 2021·7 min read

"For the first time since my adolescence, I am recognizing that I don’t have to believe what everyone believes, nor do I have to base my morals on faceless strangers who don’t know who I am, or what my experiences are."

Autoethnographic Poetry & Art: Traveling Through the Apocalypse

Vivian Wagner·

All Autoethnographic Multimedia Autoethnographic Poetry Special Issue 2022: Climate Change

·February 22, 2022·8 min read

“We noticed signs of climate change and felt a sense of impending doom, even as we witnessed how human beings across the continent are trying to keep alive a sense of culture, art, and kindness.”

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Autoethnographic Poetry: Into the Dark, Inspired by Wendell Berry

Paula Aamli·

All Autoethnographic Poetry Special Issue 2022: Climate Change

·February 28, 2022·11 min read

"I have continued to explore the usefulness of various poetic forms as a mechanism for providing access to suppressed internal voices."

¡Aguacate! Bringing Up Bebe Bilingüe: Part 1, Whiteness and Word Gaps

Stephanie Abraham·

All Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Autoethnographic Writing Features Volume 2, Issue 1 (2022)

·March 17, 2022·14 min read

"The words we use and how we say them are much more than sounds, they tell a story that gives us away, revealing a history about and behind us, a place and a people that we have come from."

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Multimedia Autoethnography: “Drifting,” an Exploration of Sibling Loss

William Doan·

All Autoethnographic Multimedia Autoethnographic Writing Volume 1, Issue 1 (2021)

·August 5, 2021·7 min read

"I'm not exactly sure when I decided to make a performance piece about my sister's traumatic brain injury and death. In fact, I'm not sure there ever was a single moment of decision. Her story had become public in many ways, from online care sites to prayer chains to social media posts from family and friends. Her story was being performed out in the world before I started telling it."

The Call of Otherness: Fear & Awe

Ulla-Maija Matikainen·

Æ: Musings from the Editors All Autoethnographic Essays Volume 3, Issue 1 (2023)

·January 26, 2023·5 min read

Our editor Ulla-Maija Matikainen is questioning the call of otherness and narrates her discovery about the sameness that she has seen.

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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: Cooking with Cannabis

Sandra L. Faulkner·

All Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Autoethnographic Writing Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·November 20, 2021·19 min read

"When I return to Sam’s place with the cheesecloth, I smell our “soup” pot. Shit. I envision the blotter headline: ECU Professor busted for marijuana. What a way to make my graduate mentors proud and to show success at this professor business."

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Attend an Autoethnography and Narrative Online Conference, January 3-5, 2022

Marlen Harrison·

All News, Interviews & Reviews

·December 28, 2021·2 min read

"Throughout the first week of January, 2022, the International Association of Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry (IAANI.org) will hold their International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN) as an online conference."

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Stray Words, Turbulent Art: Translation, or How to Love English

Ulla-Maija Matikainen·

All Autoethnographic Essays Autoethnographic Writing Volume 2, Issue 1 (2022)

·November 6, 2022·4 min read

"One can’t write poetry without love. It is the strongest and the most vital root in poetry."

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Autoethnographic Poetry: Pandemic Poets of Puerto Rico

Guillermo Rebollo Gil·

All Autoethnographic Poetry Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·December 3, 2021·7 min read

"Everybody is a poet in the sense that everyone was/is making do—and making magic—with what they had/have."

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Autoethnographic Poetry: “The Wrong Kind of Theme Park”

Teena Adams·

All Autoethnographic Poetry Volume 2, Issue 1 (2022)

·January 20, 2022·11 min read

“My ability to be creatively vulnerable with my mental illness as well as the experiences which contributed to it will serve as a method of self-healing.”

New Podcast: How Can Collage Be Utilized in Autoethnography?

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New Podcast: Finding Joy in Artistic Performance as Black Feminist Autoethnography

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“Queer”: Call for Submissions, 2023-24 Special Issue

Autoethnography Questions? Ask an AutoEthnographer

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What Do Editors Look for When Reviewing Evocative Autoethnography?

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