The AutoEthnographer

Interview with Poet Jacob Meadows, Author of Shades

“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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Fragrance Cultures: The Making of a Perfume Historian

“Because I was so immersed in both history, bound in good-smelling leather, no less, and in beautiful and evocative little bottles around me as playthings, I guess it needed no further prompting. It was within my blood before I could think about what I wanted to do with my life!”

Graffiti of girls protesting war by Annette Jones for Pixabay

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Autoethnographic Nonfiction: When Your Student Goes to War

“I wish I could describe the love a teacher has for their students. It’s a different kind of love, that seems awkward to even call love (because of all the other meanings of that word).”

Featured photo of woman in sari and jewels from Nandini Manjunath

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Multimedia Autoethnography: On ‘Being’ and ‘Knowing’ a Body

”I share this artistic piece as an invitation to problematise and think further about not only the Autoethnographic “I/We” in what I/we can know about ourselves and our bodies but also to make space for the incoherence that becomes a part of “being” and “knowing” in explorations of fragmentation and loss.”

Photo of perfume bottle by Saman Taheri for Unsplash.jpg

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Fragrance Cultures: The Making of a Perfume Critic, Part 1

“As fragrance, and perfume in particular, has played a major role in the shaping of my writer’s voice, and participation in cultures of fragrance has had a major impact upon my identity, it is impossible to situate myself outside of these cultures. It is because of this privilege of “insider identity” within the global fragrance community and my natural inclination towards narrative research that I turned to autoethnography.”

S. Perrin November 7, 2021 at 3:22 pm on Autoethnographic Nonfiction: When Your Student Goes to WarSuch a powerful piece. Reflecting upon my time I teaching, I still have enormous love for my pupils. But here
Carolyn Jameson September 30, 2021 at 4:59 pm on The Twerking Academic: “A Seat at the Table”, an Autoethnographic Dance PerformanceShanita: It was a pleasure to meet you as a mentor at SNHU, but even more of an honor to
SUZANNE VEALE July 22, 2021 at 10:46 pm on The Twerking Academic: “A Seat at the Table”, an Autoethnographic Dance PerformanceI loved this! So beautifully written, choreographed and produced! I had to watch in 2 stages because I was crying