Can a colorless person have any sense of what it feels like to be prejudged against, before “the you - inside yourself” opens your eyes in the morning?
Story-worlds were magical—they transported me to different places where I’d meet new people, and learn about their lives in visceral ways.
Confessions of an ESL Student explores the significant role that English study played in my development as a student and adult.
In this story I shifted my attention to the young woman –a nurse or a volunteer– who sat beside me and held my hand throughout abortion.
In my short story, “Cubicle,” a student filmmaker discovers loneliness, absurdity, and cruelty in the halls of Corporate America—but also finds his artistic voice.
This piece situates me in a set of sour in-laws relationships that also involved the legal system and it is in the form of autoethnography.
"Barriers melt like grilled cheese at the table when you're dancing for your supper like the old vaudevillians."
Patricia Leavy·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysCelebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024Reflections on Method
··11 min readWriting fiction allows me to document reality and to reimagine it, just as we can always reimagine ourselves. And that is why we need stories.
Emerging Immigrant’s Accents is about how language impacts our self image as we come to understand ourselves and our cultural beings.
"Censorship via banned books is an attempt to censor the future but the youth of today will not allow their voices to be silenced."
I use autoethnography to provide first-hand observations in the predominantly conservative English classroom as a way to analyze and understand a rise in toxic masculinity and its detrimental impacts.
“Entanglements of the Mind, Soul, and Body” details our journey as researchers utilizing narrative collage and collage portraits as a tool for data analysis.