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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 ContentEducationFrom the EditorsMoreVolume 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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Technicolor Third Space: Why Did We Develop the AutoEthnographer?

Marlen Harrison·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaEducationFrom the EditorsMoreReflections on MethodVolume 2, Issue 1 (2022)
·December 31, 2021·5 min read
"In this brief, animated autoethnography, I utilize the concept of a sociocultural third space to consider why evocative autoethnography can benefit from its own literary and arts journal."
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Interview with poet M. Soledad Caballero, Winner of the IAANI 2022 Outstanding Book Award

M. Soledad Caballero and Marlen Harrison·
All ContentInterviewsMoreReflections on MethodVolume 2, Issue 1 (2022)
·January 13, 2022·16 min read
"I’ve already resisted that scholarship is not creative and poetry is not part of my scholarly self. I think the idea of autoethnography allows for that cultural divide between the creative and academic to be really disrupted."
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SEE ME, Windows to the Self of the Performer-Autoethnographer

Lee Campbell·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaMoreReflections on MethodVolume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
·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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Interview with Award-Winning Author Patricia Leavy on Literary Research

Patricia Leavy and Marlen Harrison·
All ContentEducationMoreNews, Interviews & ReviewsReflections on MethodVolume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
·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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Opening Folklore: How Can We Shift Social Sciences Via Autoethnography?

Dilek Isler Hayirli·
All ContentEducationFrom the EditorsInterviewsMoreReflections on MethodVolume 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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Celestial Bodies: Writing Fiction about Love, Trauma, and Healing

Patricia Leavy·
All ContentMoreNews, Interviews & ReviewsReflections on MethodVolume 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."
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Autoethnography and Culture: Exploring Embodied Inquiry with Celeste Snowber

Michelle Reale·
All ContentEducationInterviewsMoreVolume 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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Storytelling as Academic Writing: How to Embrace Creative Nonfiction

Jessica Smartt Gullion·
All ContentEducationFrom the EditorsMoreReflections on MethodVolume 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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New Podcast: Is Autoethnography Essential to a Successful Business? Podcast with Nadine Khair

Marlen Harrison and Nadine Khair·
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·October 18, 2022·16 min read
"Dr. Nadine Khair discusses why autoethnography is essential to successful businesses in this latest podcast."
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What Is Social Fiction? Talking Re/Invention with Patricia Leavy

Patricia Leavy and Marlen Harrison·
All ContentEducationInterviewsMoreVolume 2, Issue 4 (2022)
·October 24, 2022·10 min read
"In our latest chat, Patricia Leavy discusses the evolution of the self-coined social fiction genre and offers a sneak peek at her latest publication, Film Blue."
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The AutoEthnographers Volunteer in Local Community for Hurricane Ian Relief

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All ContentFrom the EditorsMoreNews, Interviews & ReviewsVolume 2, Issue 4 (2022)
·October 28, 2022·3 min read
"Marlen Harrison and Edward Perrin enjoyed an opportunity to volunteer with Miami-based Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) to create family necessity kits for those affected by Hurricane Ian."
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