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Spark: A Novel and Metaphor for Interdisciplinary Research

All Content Autoethnographic Essays Celebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024 Special Issues

·May 6, 2024·13 min read

Leavy’s 2019 novel about a week-long all-inclusive Icelandic research seminar wends its way through meetings, planning sessions, excursions, debates and dinners to the heart of the paradigms and epistemological questions that structure and drive scholarly research.

Fiction as Research? We Can Do That?

Jessica Smartt Gullion·

All Content Autoethnographic Essays Celebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024 Special Issues

·May 6, 2024·12 min read

Leavy is more than the mother of the social fiction movement in the social sciences; she’s its fairy godmother.

Mainstream Publishing Has a God Problem: Writing Truth on the Margins

Victoria Costello·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Fiction Volume 4, Issue 1 (2024)

·February 14, 2024·11 min read

I provide context by referencing theory and practice in narrative medicine and current literary criticism around trauma plots.

Autoethnographic Fiction: Out of the Rain and Sun

Mark Putzi·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Fiction Volume 3, Issue 1 (2023)

·January 14, 2023·33 min read

"This autoethnographic story is about mental illness, specifically bi-polar disorder."

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The AutoEthnographer’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

Marlen Harrison·

All Content News, Interviews & Reviews Volume 2, Issue 4 (2022)

·October 28, 2022·1 min read

"The AutoEthnographer is committed to diversity, equity, & inclusion in its administration; support of emerging authors and artists; & celebration of creative expression as a vehicle for shared understanding & positive change."

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."

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Autoethnographic Literary Fiction: “Just One More Time…”, a Family’s Experience of COVID Social Distancing

Nicole Brown·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Fiction Autoethnographic Writing Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·December 10, 2021·16 min read

"She has been so careful at work; she has had all of her shopping delivered for weeks, actually for months, now; she's even wiped down the items with bleach as they are delivered, and still does. How can this have happened?"

Autoethnographic Essay: Adventures in Examining Life

Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: Breaking Personal Boundaries, My Path to the PhD

The Challenges of Being a Woman in Bangladesh: Asha’s Story

Contraction: “A stranger held my hand and still, I think I love her”

New Podcast & Video: How do Google & Autoethnography Go Together?

Entanglements of the Mind, Soul, and Body: A Collage

The Pandemic Nature Project, Filmed Vignettes of Life During COVID

Storytelling as Academic Writing: How to Embrace Creative Nonfiction

The AutoEthnographer Is Excited to Empower Young Women through Unique Digital Mentorship

Artistic Autoethnography: How Can We Open the Door to Boundless Artmaking?

Recipes of Life: How Kitchens Preserve Intergenerational Narratives

What Is Autoethnography? How Can I Learn More?