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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: Breaking Personal Boundaries, My Path to the PhD

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Autoethnographic Writing Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·September 24, 2021·7 min read

"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."

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Fragrance Cultures: The Making of a Perfume Critic, Part 1

Marlen Harrison·

All Content Autoethnographic Essays Autoethnographic Writing Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·October 3, 2021·18 min read

"As fragrance, and perfume in particular, has played a major role in the shaping of my writer’s voice, and participation in cultures of fragrance has had a major impact upon my identity, it is impossible to situate myself outside of these cultures. It is because of this privilege of “insider identity” within the global fragrance community and my natural inclination towards narrative research that I turned to autoethnography."

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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 Content Education From the Editors More Volume 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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Autoethnographic Poetry: Embodying Bipolarism in Mania Variations II

Amanda Sieradzki·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Autoethnographic Poetry Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·October 17, 2021·9 min read

"I called out the demons one by one. I named them. I gave them precise blocking and ultimately, I controlled where they stood, breathed, and bourréed. I gave them an entrance, and a stage, and then I sent them away."

Multimedia Autoethnography: On ‘Being’ and ‘Knowing’ a Body

Nandini Manjunath·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·October 23, 2021·3 min read

”I share this artistic piece as an invitation to problematise and think further about not only the Autoethnographic “I/We” in what I/we can know about ourselves and our bodies but also to make space for the incoherence that becomes a part of “being” and “knowing” in explorations of fragmentation and loss.”

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My Journey to Poetry: Nonagenarian Poet Milton Carp Reflects on His Process

Milton Carp·

All Content Autoethnographic Poetry Reflections on Method Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·October 31, 2021·12 min read

"Once I have the first line or two, the rest of the poem seems to flow rather easily. I write whatever comes to mind. Somewhat like a story rather than a poem. I then start to take out the excess words and phrases and pare it down to the essence of what I wish to say. Other times I do not change a word. The muses come and go on their own. I also believe poetry has chosen me."

The Twerking Academic: Bodily Autonomy & “My Stuff”, a Multimedia Performance

Shanita Mitchell·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·November 13, 2021·3 min read

"Then comes that special brand of rage and dejection that the patriarchy inspires by attempting to steal away with my bodily autonomy."

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The AutoEthnographer’s Shanita Mitchell Wins 2022 IAANI Award

Marlen Harrison·

All Content News, Interviews & Reviews Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·November 16, 2021·1 min read

"Congratulations to Shanita Mitchell, Editorial Board member of The AutoEthnographer and multimedia artist, for her recognition by the International Association of Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry (IAANI)."

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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: Cooking with Cannabis

Sandra L. Faulkner·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Autoethnographic Writing Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·November 20, 2021·19 min read

"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."

Fragrance Cultures: The Making of a Perfume Historian

Elena Vosnaki·

All Content Autoethnographic Essays Autoethnographic Writing Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·November 26, 2021·15 min read

"Because I was so immersed in both history, bound in good-smelling leather, no less, and in beautiful and evocative little bottles around me as playthings, I guess it needed no further prompting. It was within my blood before I could think about what I wanted to do with my life!"

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Autoethnographic Poetry: Pandemic Poets of Puerto Rico

Guillermo Rebollo Gil·

All Content Autoethnographic Poetry Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·December 3, 2021·7 min read

"Everybody is a poet in the sense that everyone was/is making do—and making magic—with what they had/have."

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Autoethnographic Literary Fiction: “Just One More Time…”, a Family’s Experience of COVID Social Distancing

Nicole Brown·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Fiction Autoethnographic Writing Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·December 10, 2021·16 min read

"She has been so careful at work; she has had all of her shopping delivered for weeks, actually for months, now; she's even wiped down the items with bleach as they are delivered, and still does. How can this have happened?"

Loss Series 1: Coping with Pet Bereavement and My Forever Love for My Beautiful Cat, ‘Timi’

New Issue! The AutoEthnographer Volume 2, Issue 4, Autumn, 2022

Breathe New Life: Prison Yoga

Love Songs to Pig-Cupid: A Collection of Poems on Bodily Autonomy

Camping and Building Powerful Connections at Bull Trout Lake

Why I Write: An Essay on Language, Writing and Identity

Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: A Pragmatic Ruin and the Objectionable Southern Woman

Surreal Seclusion: Helpless to Time

Performance and Autoethnography: Award-winning Artist Offers Exclusive Insight

An Autoethnographic Video Response to COVID-19: “Waiting for Elijah”

“Being In Time”: China, Place Memory & Pedagogy – From Xinjiang To Shanghai

What Do Editors Look for When Reviewing Creative Autoethnography?

Horse, Therapy: Trauma and Healing in Animals and Humans

What Is Autoethnography? How Can I Learn More?

Recipes of Life: How Kitchens Preserve Intergenerational Narratives