...Lauren M. Sardi; Kathy Livingston The experience of loss and grief during the COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity to explore the connections between the individual and society through the use of the autoethnographic method. In writing this autoethnography, the authors confront questions about...

... friends. © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 death ethnographic fiction autoethnography continued bonds poetic inquiry An autopsy—“a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause, mode, and manner of death” 1 —is reserved for only a small...

... captive and seeks to encourage reflection on how to move forward toward a living existence. © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 critical autoethnography autoethnography relationality identity border theory Vietnam veteran childhood death life My father died...

... death, as well as the loss of the second most important woman in his life sixteen months later, realizing that these two events have resulted in a form of PTSD. © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 grief autoethnography bereavement love heartbreak My mom had...

.... The authors offer autoethnographic accounts of their CCP-centered emotional labor, and then draw conclusions from a critical communication pedagogy perspective. © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 emotional labor critical communication pedagogy autoethnography reflexive care...

...Christina E. Saindon; Yea-Wen Chen This essay discloses the journey of two women as they become faculty-in-residence (FIR) at different institutions. Though far apart physically, the authors utilize a method of collaborative autoethnography to reflect on how their experiences marked boundaries...

... in the context of the author’s personal experiences and inherent values as a mental health nurse and educator. Key reflections regarding the use of memory as method along with procedural, relational, and ethical considerations determine how the autoethnography and its portrayal may have been shaped. I sat...

... Bakhtin ethics autoethnography As I write this letter I can see the full moon which so fascinated you. Its full face seems to be grinning at me and I think if it had the power of speech it would say– “You darn fool, you are just writing nonsense.” Probably that heavenly body doesn’t know...

... (Kanwarjeet) walk through many doors each day. In this autoethnography, I utilize the metaphors of “storytelling,” “walking,” and “doors” to consider the intricacies of the journey a diasporic self makes, peregrinating through professional and cultural hyphens, concomitantly. I invite my readers to co-tread...

... this principle to mean writing an autoethnography—writing to bear witness against my academic self and my use of “academese.” But my autoethnography also highlights the westernese in academese—a language that espouses a dominant Eurocentric aesthetic to scholarly discourses. © 2022 by The Regents...

... of the weak.” © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 Garfinkeling autoethnography breaching experiments adolescent behavior I have spent the past two years writing a memoir of my youth, especially my later high school years following my father’s suicide in 1966. While...

... is to provide others who feel marginalized a way of thinking that might be helpful in dealing with such issues. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 inclusion exclusion autoethnography even Content and the context need to be taken into consideration when deciding...

... of a citywide state of emergency in the 2020 pandemic. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 autoethnography mindfulness caregiving crisis liminal spaces When we face crisis, we find out what we are made of. We get an up-close meeting with our inherent character. We...

...Karen V. Lee This evocative autoethnography reflects the author’s grief after she learns that a past teacher candidate was killed on Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) flight 752. Grief washes over her as “writing down our worst experiences can also offer a way to cope with some of life’s horrors...

...Peter Joseph Gloviczki In this autoethnography, I layer a childhood memory of playing chess onto the experience of watching a video about chess. In doing so, I hope to bridge past and present to build future. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 autoethnography memory...

...David F. Purnell; Christina L. Ivey; Andy Sturt One of the strengths of autoethnography is the connections that can be made through the telling of story. This article is an compilation of the connections made during presentations at the International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative...

...Anonymous Author, PhD This autoethnography explores the communication and helpful/hindering systems available for faculty being harassed and stalked by current or former students. Highlighting general statistics and the numbers in my own student-stalker experience, I use this work to elucidate...

...-son turmoil and organizational oppression along with offering defiant modes of queer resistance(s) and becoming(s). © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 auto-archaeology resistance scouting Boy Scouts father-son relationships autoethnography queer identity agency...

... in the healthcare field. In this critical autoethnography, the author focuses on her experiences of coping with and navigating her world as a hearing-impaired individual. The autoethnographic account explores the author’s face-to-face encounters with her peers, audiologist, medical practitioners, and personal...

... stigma, I often get weary repeating myself, trying to explain how a blind guy can see. Autoethnography can provide the reader with an opportunity to embrace the cultural standpoint of the writer, 1 especially if they find a way to associate the experience with their own journey. I am attempting to “seek...