Reflections on Method

Firsthand accounts, interviews, useful strategies, and reflections on what it’s like to craft autoethnography.

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What Do Editors Look for When Reviewing Evocative Autoethnography?

Marlen Harrison, Odessa Ogo, Shanita Mitchell, Dilek Isler Hayirli, Sandra L. Faulkner, Jessica Smartt Gullion, Jacob Meadows, Nadine Khair and Lina Fe Simoy·

Æ: Musings from the Editors All Education Reflections on Method Volume 2, Issue 4 (2022)

·January 12, 2023·1 min read

This video explores how editors have developed their approach to reviewing evocative autoethnography and highlights strategies for contributors.

New Podcast: How Can Collage Be Utilized in Autoethnography?

Marlen Harrison and Sandra L. Faulkner·

All News, Interviews & Reviews Podcasts Reflections on Method Volume 3, Issue 1 (2023)

·January 6, 2023·16 min read

In The AutoEthnographer’s latest podcast, Marlen Harrison talks with Sandra Faulkner about collage and visual poetry.

What Is Autoethnography? How Can I Learn More?

Marlen Harrison, Sandra L. Faulkner, Jessica Smartt Gullion, Nadine Khair, Lina Fe Simoy, Dilek Isler Hayirli and Ulla-Maija Matikainen·

Æ: Musings from the Editors All Education Reflections on Method Volume 2, Issue 4 (2022)

·December 12, 2022·13 min read

The AutoEthnographer's international team of editors offer definitions of autoethnography as well as helpful suggested readings.

Illustration of woman with guitar by EFES for Pixabay

Can We Live Autoethnography? Getting to Know Marieke Slovin Lewis

Marieke Slovin Lewis·

All Features Reflections on Method Volume 2, Issue 4 (2022)

·December 9, 2022·5 min read

"It is my hope that these words will serve as the beginning of an ongoing dialogue about what it means to live autoethnography."

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

Dilek Isler Hayirli·

Æ: Musings from the Editors All Autoethnographic Multimedia Education 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"

Screenshot of black woman dancing from Shanita Mitchell's A Seat at the Table

New Podcast: Finding Joy in Artistic Performance as Black Feminist Autoethnography

Shanita Mitchell and Renata Ferdinand·

Æ: Musings from the Editors All Interviews Podcasts Reflections on Method Volume 2, Issue 4 (2022)

·October 21, 2022·3 min read

How do creatives find joy in artistic performance as a form of black feminist autoethnography? Podcast & video.

Storytelling as Academic Writing: How to Embrace Creative Nonfiction

Jessica Smartt Gullion·

Æ: Musings from the Editors All Education Features 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."

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

Patricia Leavy·

All 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."

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

Dilek Isler Hayirli·

Æ: Musings from the Editors All Education Interviews 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."

Interview with Award-Winning Author Patricia Leavy on Literary Research

Patricia Leavy and Marlen Harrison·

All Education News, Interviews & Reviews Reflections on Method Volume 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."

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

Lee Campbell·

All Autoethnographic Multimedia Reflections on Method Volume 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'?

I Was a Bell poems by Soledad Caballero cover art by Caitlin Sacks

Interview with poet M. Soledad Caballero, Winner of the IAANI 2022 Outstanding Book Award

M. Soledad Caballero and Marlen Harrison·

All Interviews Reflections on Method Volume 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."

New Podcast: How Can Collage Be Utilized in Autoethnography?

New Podcast: In What Ways Do Autoethnography & Painting Go Together?

New Podcast: Finding Joy in Artistic Performance as Black Feminist Autoethnography

New Podcast: How Can Collage Be Utilized in Autoethnography?

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Reflections on Method

What Do Editors Look for When Reviewing Evocative Autoethnography?

New Podcast: How Can Collage Be Utilized in Autoethnography?

What Is Autoethnography? How Can I Learn More?

Can We Live Autoethnography? Getting to Know Marieke Slovin Lewis

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

New Podcast: Finding Joy in Artistic Performance as Black Feminist Autoethnography

Storytelling as Academic Writing: How to Embrace Creative Nonfiction

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

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

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

Interview with poet M. Soledad Caballero, Winner of the IAANI 2022 Outstanding Book Award

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