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Artistic Autoethnography: How Can We Open the Door to Boundless Artmaking?

Karenanna Boyle Creps·
All ContentEducationMoreReflections on MethodVolume 3, Issue 1 (2023)
·March 1, 2023·4 min read
I introduce artistic autoethnography and how the term a/r/tifact opens up the imagination to the possibilities of autoethnographic artmaking.   
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Autoethnography and Culture: Exploring Embodied Inquiry with Celeste Snowber

Michelle Reale·
All ContentEducationInterviewsMoreVolume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
·September 14, 2022·10 min read
"Autoethnography and culture: Embodied inquiry is not a formula, or methodology, but a way of being, being open to the body as a source of knowledge, wonder, difficulty, fragility and utter joy."
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Emotional Research: Performing Autoethnography at My Late Father’s Village

Dilek Isler Hayirli·
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·November 6, 2022·13 min read
"I had not been aware that this emotional research was also performing autoethnography, collecting memories from the field"
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Empowering The Rainbow: How to Fight The Normalization Of Toxic Masculinity

Nicole Shim·
All ContentEducationMoreVolume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
·September 17, 2023·10 min read
I use autoethnography to provide first-hand observations in the predominantly conservative English classroom as a way to analyze and understand a rise in toxic masculinity and its detrimental impacts.
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Expressions of Care: How to Provide Grief Support

Lily Fessenden and Maegan Parker Brooks·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysEducationMoreReflections on MethodVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·February 11, 2025·13 min read
Through our collaborative autoethnography, we learned that intentionally spending time with grief is well worth the effort.
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How to Find Your Own Voice: Journeying in the World of Poetry

Ulla-Maija Matikainen·
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·April 6, 2023·4 min read
A tsunami of words, images, learned and pushed feelings and thoughts go through us every day. Poetry is a way to find our own voice.
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Interview with Award-Winning Author Patricia Leavy on Literary Research

Patricia Leavy and Marlen Harrison·
All ContentEducationMoreNews, Interviews & ReviewsReflections on MethodVolume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
·July 18, 2022·14 min read
"In my interview with award-winning author Patricia Leavy on literary research, we also discuss her evolution from academic to novelist, her genre of "social fiction," and her latest novels series, Celestial Bodies."
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Opening Folklore: How Can We Shift Social Sciences Via Autoethnography?

Dilek Isler Hayirli·
All ContentEducationFrom the EditorsInterviewsMoreReflections on MethodVolume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
·September 1, 2022·9 min read
"In Turkey, we must consider opening folklore & the social sciences, but this time more powerfully, staggeringly, and creatively."
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Reviewing Evocative Autoethnography: What Do Editors Look for?

Odessa Ogo, Antony Kaminju, Shanita Mitchell, Jacob Meadows, Jessica Smartt Gullion, Nadine Khair, William Doan and Marlen Harrison·
All ContentEducationFrom the EditorsMoreVolume 1, Issue 2 (2021)
·October 8, 2021·6 min read
"When I review evocative autoethnography I look for that layer in the contribution that will entertain and connect to a cultural issue."
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Storytelling as Academic Writing: How to Embrace Creative Nonfiction

Jessica Smartt Gullion·
All ContentEducationFrom the EditorsMoreReflections on MethodVolume 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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Technicolor Third Space: Why Did We Develop the AutoEthnographer?

Marlen Harrison·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaEducationFrom the EditorsMoreReflections on MethodVolume 2, Issue 1 (2022)
·December 31, 2021·5 min read
"In this brief, animated autoethnography, I utilize the concept of a sociocultural third space to consider why evocative autoethnography can benefit from its own literary and arts journal."
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The AutoEthnographer Is Excited to Empower Young Women through Unique Digital Mentorship

Lina Fe Simoy·
All ContentEducationFrom the EditorsMoreNews, Interviews & ReviewsVolume 3, Issue 2 (2023)
·May 13, 2023·3 min read
In the women’s history month, The AutoEthnographer supported "Her Story Leads: Amplifying Women’s voices through digital storytelling".
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