What Is The AutoEthnographer Magazine? The AutoEthnographer’s Mission The AutoEthnographer is an award-winning, non-profit, open-access, peer-reviewed literary and arts magazine....
This video explores how editors have developed their approach to reviewing creative autoethnography and highlights strategies for contributors.
"When I review evocative autoethnography I look for that layer in the contribution that will entertain and connect to a cultural issue."
I introduce artistic autoethnography and how the term a/r/tifact opens up the imagination to the possibilities of autoethnographic artmaking.
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.
"In our latest chat, Patricia Leavy discusses the evolution of the self-coined social fiction genre and offers a sneak peek at her latest publication, Film Blue."
"In Turkey, we must consider opening folklore & the social sciences, but this time more powerfully, staggeringly, and creatively."
"One way to reach broader audiences is to embrace creative nonfiction and use storytelling as academic writing."
What is autoethnography? The AutoEthnographer's international team of editors offer definitions & suggested readings.
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All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaEducationFrom the EditorsReflections on MethodVolume 2, Issue 1 (2022)
··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."
"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."
"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."