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Patricia Leavy Is the Social Fiction Doyenne

Alexandra Lasczik·

All Content Autoethnographic Essays Celebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024

·May 17, 2024·20 min read

Patricia Leavy is a genuine trailblazer, the real deal, an inspiration.

Spark: A Novel and Metaphor for Interdisciplinary Research

Ash Watson·

All Content Autoethnographic Essays Celebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024

·May 6, 2024·13 min read

Leavy’s 2019 novel about a week-long all-inclusive Icelandic research seminar wends its way through meetings, planning sessions, excursions, debates and dinners to the heart of the paradigms and epistemological questions that structure and drive scholarly research.

Fiction as Research? We Can Do That?

Jessica Smartt Gullion·

All Content Autoethnographic Essays Celebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024

·May 6, 2024·12 min read

Leavy is more than the mother of the social fiction movement in the social sciences; she’s its fairy godmother.

A Full-Fat Remix of Low-Fat Love Stories

Tabitha Chilton and Gioia Chilton·

All Content Autoethnographic Essays Celebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024

·May 5, 2024·23 min read

Low-Fat Love Stories is the result of arts-based research on romantic, familial, and intrapsychic dissatisfying relationships, written by Patricia Leavy.

Middle Age Blues

Sandra L. Faulkner·

All Content Autoethnographic Essays Celebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024

·May 5, 2024·21 min read

As a feminist poet and (auto)ethnographer, I found Leavy's themes of Film Blue speak to what I want my work to do and be.

Social Fiction: How Leavy Pioneers a New Genre

Christine Sleeter·

All Content Autoethnographic Essays Celebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024 Reflections on Method

·March 15, 2024·23 min read

Christine Sleeter writes about Dr. Patricia Leavy's new genre, Sleeter's own books and her reflections on the social fiction series.

Four Essays on Being Trans in the Anthropocene: Horses

Aislin Neufeldt·

All Content Autoethnographic Essays Volume 4, Issue 1 (2024)

·March 5, 2024·12 min read

MILK, ANTHOLOGIES, HORSES, & JOUISSANCE contained work as a meta-performance of the idea of texts passing through other texts.

Between Low-Fat Love and A Big Life

U. Melissa Anyiwo·

All Content Autoethnographic Essays Celebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024 Reflections on Method

·February 27, 2024·31 min read

This piece is intended to give you a sense of the ways in which I use Low-Fat Love in the classroom and why just using it makes the world a better place.