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Autoethnographic Poetry: On Being a Casual Academic

Jennifer Murphy·
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·July 6, 2022·9 min read
"The following autoethnographic poetry represents the experience of being a casual academic negotiating the workspace."
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·July 12, 2022·3 min read
"I'm proud to announce that this week, on July 13, Rowman & Littlefield will traditionally publish my second book, Coping with Parental Death: Insights and Tips for Teenagers."
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SEE ME, Windows to the Self of the Performer-Autoethnographer

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·July 14, 2022·21 min read
"'SEE ME, Windows to the Self of the Performer-Autoethnographer' explores the question, 'What can I learn about myself by making artwork as autoethnography'?
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¡Aguacate!, Part II: How I Learned Two Languages

Stephanie Abraham·
All ContentAutoethnographic WritingVolume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
·July 18, 2022·9 min read
"In "Becoming Multilingual," part 2 of my column, "¡Aguacate! Bringing Up Bebe Bilingüe," I use autoethnography as a writing approach to capture and represent the personal experiences of myself, a qualitative researcher, who has become the researched."
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Interview with Award-Winning Author Patricia Leavy on Literary Research

Patricia Leavy and Marlen Harrison·
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·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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Book Review: How Do We Understand Black Girl Identity?

Guillermo Rebollo Gil·
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·July 19, 2022·4 min read
"Editor Guillermo Gil reviews Renata Harden Ferdinand's An Autoethnography of African American Motherhood: Things I Tell my Daughter."
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Celebrating the 65+ New Age Sage, in Praise of Saxions

Catherine Vandermal·
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·August 28, 2022·5 min read
"As a New Age Sage or “Saxion”, it’s important to understand that to move things forward I must accept a challenge - to reinvent myself."
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Opening Folklore: How Can We Shift Social Sciences Via Autoethnography?

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

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

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·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."
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The Pandemic Nature Project, Filmed Vignettes of Life During COVID

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·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."
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Journey of Self Love: Autoethnographic Art

Britnie Walston·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaVolume 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."
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