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Can We Live Autoethnography? Getting to Know Marieke Slovin Lewis

All Features Reflections on Method Volume 2, Issue 4 (2022)

·December 9, 2022·5 min read

"It is my hope that these words will serve as the beginning of an ongoing dialogue about what it means to live autoethnography."

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The Challenges of Being a Woman in Bangladesh: Asha’s Story

Aliya Khan·

All Autoethnographic Literary Fiction Features Volume 2, Issue 4 (2022)

·November 4, 2022·47 min read

"I wrote Asha’s story to give voice to all the women in rural Bangladesh who cannot speak out against their abusers or society."

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Dancing for My Supper Like the Old Vaudevillians

Barbara File Marangon·

All Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Features Volume 2, Issue 4 (2022)

·November 2, 2022·5 min read

"Barriers melt like grilled cheese at the table when you're dancing for your supper like the old vaudevillians."

Storytelling as Academic Writing: How to Embrace Creative Nonfiction

Jessica Smartt Gullion·

Æ: Musings from the Editors All Education Features Reflections on Method Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·September 14, 2022·5 min read

"One way to reach broader audiences is to embrace creative nonfiction and use storytelling as academic writing."

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Being a Female Gamer & Playing Lord of the Rings Online

Diane Riggins·

All Autoethnographic Writing Features Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·September 14, 2022·5 min read

"As a female gamer, being able to play a game where the female characters/toons aren’t dressed as sexual objects is refreshing."

The Twerking Academic: Video, “Double Consciousness as a Black American”

Shanita Mitchell·

All Autoethnographic Multimedia Features Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·September 2, 2022·2 min read

"In the newest video from The Twerking Academic, I explore how the summer of 2020 slammed me back into an awareness of my own double consciousness as a Black American."

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Celebrating the 65+ New Age Sage, in Praise of Saxions

Catherine Vandermal·

All Autoethnographic Writing Features Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·August 28, 2022·5 min read

"As a New Age Sage or “Saxion”, it’s important to understand that to move things forward I must accept a challenge - to reinvent myself."

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¡Aguacate!, Part II: How I Learned Two Languages

Stephanie Abraham·

All Autoethnographic Writing Features Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·July 18, 2022·9 min read

"In "Becoming Multilingual," part 2 of my column, "¡Aguacate! Bringing Up Bebe Bilingüe," I use autoethnography as a writing approach to capture and represent the personal experiences of myself, a qualitative researcher, who has become the researched."

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New Book: Coping with Parental Death, by Michelle Shreeve

Michelle Shreeve·

All Features News, Interviews & Reviews Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·July 12, 2022·3 min read

"I'm proud to announce that this week, on July 13, Rowman & Littlefield will traditionally publish my second book, Coping with Parental Death: Insights and Tips for Teenagers."

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Autoethnographic Literary Fiction: Processing Parental Grief, “The Sweater”

Michelle Shreeve·

All Autoethnographic Literary Fiction Features Volume 2, Issue 2 (2022)

·June 20, 2022·5 min read

"Processing Parental Grief" As she started to tear up, the sweater instantly felt like her mother's arms wrapping around her. In that moment, Kathy realized she would never again be able to hide in that sweater while her mother was wearing it.

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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: Eulogy For a Perfume

Annie B. Shapero·

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

·May 31, 2022·12 min read

"When a favorite perfume ceases to exist, it is another kind of death. Having been created, it leaves a special sort of emptiness," from Eulogy for a Perfume.

Climate Epiphany: Dante’s Hell and Our Tragedy with Nature

Ulla-Maija Matikainen·

All Autoethnographic Essays Features Special Issue 2022: Climate Change

·May 22, 2022·4 min read

"Ongoing horrific events painstakingly filled my mind when I submerged into Dante’s Commedia Divina. Our tragedy with nature revealed itself to me in its deepest form."

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

The AutoEthnographer Is Excited to Offer Student Scholarships!

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Features

Can We Live Autoethnography? Getting to Know Marieke Slovin Lewis

The Challenges of Being a Woman in Bangladesh: Asha’s Story

Dancing for My Supper Like the Old Vaudevillians

Storytelling as Academic Writing: How to Embrace Creative Nonfiction

Being a Female Gamer & Playing Lord of the Rings Online

The Twerking Academic: Video, “Double Consciousness as a Black American”

Celebrating the 65+ New Age Sage, in Praise of Saxions

¡Aguacate!, Part II: How I Learned Two Languages

New Book: Coping with Parental Death, by Michelle Shreeve

Autoethnographic Literary Fiction: Processing Parental Grief, “The Sweater”

Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: Eulogy For a Perfume

Climate Epiphany: Dante’s Hell and Our Tragedy with Nature

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