"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."
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.
I explore the intersection of queer identity and popular culture through the lens of my adolescent crush on rock legend Tina Turner.
"When I was first accepted into the PhD by research program in the UK, I had mixed feelings, mainly because I was about to pursue a career that I didn’t have the heart for, and partially because I would need to explore yet another new culture, country, and environment."
"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."
After 34 years of monogamy I entered the dating app world and began writing the first weekend I was single. This is story of my experience.
"And these are the things I carry: the memories of those gone before us; the names of those entrusted to me to care for."
This autoethnographic account explores the complex relationship between language and identity.
It grew out of my personal experience researching Black history museums; but in reality, it began a lot earlier, maybe before I was born.
I couldn't go to India for the past two years due to COVID-19 uncertainties and be with the rest of my family to help them navigate through this earth-shattering loss when they needed me the most, a sad reality of many international students.”
Confessions of an ESL Student explores the significant role that English study played in my development as a student and adult.
This autoethnography is the first-hand experience and exposure of imposter syndrome from a new adjunct instructor's point of view.
This work shows that the benefits of reading multiple texts, each from a different perspective provides opportunities for students.