Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

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Emotional Research: Performing Autoethnography at My Late Father’s Village

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Education From the Editors More Reflections on Method Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·November 6, 2022·13 min read

"I had not been aware that this emotional research was also performing autoethnography, collecting memories from the field"

New Issue! The AutoEthnographer Volume 2, Issue 3, Summer 2022

Marlen Harrison·

All Content Issues Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·October 8, 2022·2 min read

In this new issue from The AutoEthnographer, we introduce new features such as book reviews and autoethnographic art.

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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: How Sookie Saved My Life

Priscilla Jones·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·September 16, 2022·10 min read

"Sookie was never meant to be my support dog. The subject of this autoethnographic literary nonfiction, I rescued her when I was 17 years old and it was by far the best decision I have ever made."

Storytelling as Academic Writing: How to Embrace Creative Nonfiction

Jessica Smartt Gullion·

All Content Education From the Editors More Reflections on Method Volume 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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Autoethnography and Culture: Exploring Embodied Inquiry with Celeste Snowber

Michelle Reale·

All Content Education Interviews More Volume 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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Being a Female Gamer & Playing Lord of the Rings Online

Diane Riggins·

All Content Autoethnographic Writing Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·September 14, 2022·5 min read

"As a female gamer, being able to play a game where the female characters/toons aren’t dressed as sexual objects is refreshing."

Journey of Self Love: Autoethnographic Art

Britnie Walston·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·September 7, 2022·4 min read

"My oil on canvas series, "Journey of Self Love," depicts a variation of obstacles I've personally had to endure throughout my life as a woman."

The Pandemic Nature Project, Filmed Vignettes of Life During COVID

David Heineman·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Climate Change Special Issue, 2022 Special Issues Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·September 2, 2022·2 min read

"The Pandemic Nature Project is a 35-minute short autoethnographic film that traces a series of personal experiences, emotional reactions, and critical responses to COVID across a series of short vignettes."

“Double Consciousness as a Black American”: New Video from The Twerking Academic

Shanita Mitchell·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·September 2, 2022·3 min read

"In the newest video from The Twerking Academic, I explore how the summer of 2020 slammed me back into an awareness of my own double consciousness as a Black American."

Celestial Bodies: Writing Fiction about Love, Trauma, and Healing

Patricia Leavy·

All Content More News, Interviews & Reviews Reflections on Method Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·September 2, 2022·8 min read

"Although I never planned it, I wrote a series of novels, Celestial Bodies, that have pierced my heart in a way nothing else ever has, changing me as a writer and as a person."