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Fragrance Cultures: The Making of a Perfume Historian

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

Nadine Khair·

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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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?"

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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."

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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."

Interview with Poet Jacob Meadows, Author of Shades

Marlen Harrison and Jacob Meadows·

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

·December 13, 2021·11 min read

"It is in finding these solutions, the tape and the glue that holds us all together, that we find the beauty of who we are as people."

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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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: When Your Student Goes to War

Jessica Smartt Gullion and Jamie Covey·

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

·November 6, 2022·13 min read

"We began this autoethnographic essay thinking about the love the teachers have for their students."

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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New Issue! The AutoEthnographer Volume 1, Issue 2, Autumn 2021

Marlen Harrison·

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·December 21, 2021·2 min read

Volume 1, Issue 2, Summer 2021

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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."

Autoethnographic Poetry: “The Wrong Kind of Theme Park”

Little Red: The Truth About Growing Up Queer And South-Asian

Missing A Beat

Autoethnography and Artwork: Revealing Oppression in “Supreme Justice”

How to Make Students Laugh in Spanish: Some Serious Considerations

Saying Goodbye: A Father’s Last Minute Parting Gift to His Son

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

A Private Life in Rural Idaho

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

Multimedia Autoethnography: “Drifting,” an Exploration of Sibling Loss

What Do Editors Look for When Reviewing Creative Autoethnography?

SEE ME, Windows to the Self of the Performer-Autoethnographer

Reviewing Evocative Autoethnography: What Do Editors Look for?

What Is Autoethnography? How Can I Learn More?

Tattoo Meanings: Love, Loss, & Autoethnographic Musings

The Karen Disorder: Breaking Free from the Chains of Institutional Labels

Buried Under Identities. How to Free My Sense of Self?

Life in Okinawa Under the American Military

Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

Fragrance Cultures: The Making of a Perfume Historian

Reviewing Evocative Autoethnography: What Do Editors Look for?

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

Autoethnographic Poetry: Embodying Bipolarism in Mania Variations II

Autoethnographic Poetry: Pandemic Poets of Puerto Rico

Interview with Poet Jacob Meadows, Author of Shades

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

Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: When Your Student Goes to War

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

New Issue! The AutoEthnographer Volume 1, Issue 2, Autumn 2021

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

What Is Autoethnography? How Can I Learn More?

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