I write of parental grief & my mother's sweater as a comfort to me, exploring cultures of grief where pain meets love and love meets pain.
Autoethnographic Writing
Whether short-form or long-form, personal memoir or speculative fiction, The AutoEthnographer seeks to publish your evocative expressions of the cultural made personal.
The essay tells the story of the author's attempt to bridge the gap in political beliefs between himself and his uncle.
I explore the intersection of queer identity and popular culture through the lens of my adolescent crush on rock legend Tina Turner.
This work shows that the benefits of reading multiple texts, each from a different perspective provides opportunities for students.
This is a piece I wrote in desperation after being confronted with the failures of the foster system in the United States today.
I documented my two-month diet in a food journal and it began as a personal effort to lose weight following a "Barthes diet".
In this final installment, I recount my second month dieting with Roland Barthes.
In Saying Goodbye: A Father's Last Minute Parting Gift to His Son, I channel the moments I remember from the night before my mother died.
It recounts vignettes of my’s dad’s life, his final week, the deep bond with family and friends and the ease with which he let go of life.
This piece of original short fiction contains plot elements based on my recent adventures hiking remote trails in Ecuador and Colorado.
Christine Sleeter·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysCelebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024Reflections on Method
··23 min readChristine Sleeter writes about Dr. Patricia Leavy's new genre, Sleeter's own books and her reflections on the social fiction series.
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.