Confessions of an ESL Student explores the significant role that English study played in my development as a student and adult.
In the autoethnographic "Spinach Lasagna", the narrator joins a family of southern Italians and learns that grieving is cultural.
"This is my childhood memory of realizing the power of laughter when everything interior and exterior makes me scared."
"This is an autoethnographic narrative where I use my own marriage to tell a story about love, bodily autonomy, acceptance and illness."
"This is an autoetnography of a black fatherhood journey which encapsulates my hopes, my fears, my love of baby and mother, while trying my best to make sense of a Black fatherhood I wanted so very dearly."
“Manslation” explores several episodes from the author’s childhood and early adulthood that show the development of his sexual literacy.
"Horse, Therapy is a story of my own experience and is a commentary on trauma, both in animals and humans."
"The Christening Gown' is an autoethnographic exploration of the significance of a family heirloom for an Irish Catholic family in the USA."
"Give Me a Strawberry Cockroach" is the first article in our 2023 special issue on laughter and tells a story of Japanese language learning and performance.
""Mourning (Unfinished)" is an essay about the way my experiences with farm animals helped me come to terms with a miscarriage."
“A Quest for Social Justice: Notes on an Encounter” continues my accounting of having been falsely accused of sexual assault online.
"We began this autoethnographic essay thinking about the love the teachers have for their students."