Reflections on Method

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

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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."

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."

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."

Interview with Award-Winning Author Patricia Leavy on Literary Research

Patricia Leavy and Marlen Harrison·

All Content Education More 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 Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia More 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 Content Interviews More 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."

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Technicolor Third Space: Why Did We Develop the AutoEthnographer?

Marlen Harrison·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Education From the Editors More Reflections on Method Volume 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."

Photo of woman in front of book by Christine Engelhardt for Pixabay

Worlds without Women: Tolkien’s Middle-earth

Diane Riggins·

All Content Autoethnographic Essays Autoethnographic Writing Reflections on Method Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·December 17, 2021·5 min read

"My thesis began to unfold after doing some research on my final topic idea about Tolkien’s world, female characters, female gamers, and the stereotype that females are the love interests or damsels in distress. I chose autoethnography because it allowed me to add that personal angle to the paper because I am a female writer, reader, and gamer."

Interview with Poet Jacob Meadows, Author of Shades

Marlen Harrison and Jacob Meadows·

All Content Autoethnographic Poetry Interviews Reflections on Method Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·December 13, 2021·11 min read

"It is in finding these solutions, the tape and the glue that holds us all together, that we find the beauty of who we are as people."

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My Journey to Poetry: Nonagenarian Poet Milton Carp Reflects on His Process

Milton Carp·

All Content Autoethnographic Poetry Reflections on Method Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·October 31, 2021·12 min read

"Once I have the first line or two, the rest of the poem seems to flow rather easily. I write whatever comes to mind. Somewhat like a story rather than a poem. I then start to take out the excess words and phrases and pare it down to the essence of what I wish to say. Other times I do not change a word. The muses come and go on their own. I also believe poetry has chosen me."

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