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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"

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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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."

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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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New Book: Coping with Parental Death, by Michelle Shreeve

Michelle Shreeve·

All Content News, Interviews & Reviews Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·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."

Opening Folklore: How Can We Shift Social Sciences Via Autoethnography?

Dilek Isler Hayirli·

All Content Education From the Editors Interviews More Reflections on Method Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·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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Autoethnographic Poetry: On Being a Casual Academic

Jennifer Murphy·

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

·July 6, 2022·9 min read

"The following autoethnographic poetry represents the experience of being a casual academic negotiating the workspace."

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."

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."

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.

“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."

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Celebrating the 65+ New Age Sage, in Praise of Saxions

Catherine Vandermal·

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

·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."

Cruella de Vil, from ”101 Dalmatians,” in Real Life

Pitch (Not) Perfect: My Quixotic Journey in the World of Music

Book Review: Patricia Leavy’s Writing and Publishing Qualitative Research

‘Surprise! Surprise!’ A Potty Training Mystery and a Misadventure

Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: I Just Want to Go Home – Moving, Loss and Unacknowledged Grief

Queer Adolescence Revisited: On Tina Turner and Finding Home

Panadero’s Death: His Sweet Bread, Never Absent Bolillo and Our Beautiful Pan Dulce

Woken Word: Make Sure the Truth Is Not Omitted

Why Is Sign Language an Important Part of a Deaf Child’s Identity Development?

Autoethnographic Poetry: Embodying Bipolarism in Mania Variations II

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

Answering the Call of Conscience in Call Out Culture

A Conversation with Patricia Leavy about Writing Fiction During the Pandemic and Her New Novel, The Location Shoot

What Is Autoethnography? How Can I Learn More?

Autoethnographic Essay: The Unbearable Triteness of Being (Middle Class)

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

Breathe New Life: Prison Yoga

Life in Okinawa Under the American Military