...Suraj Kumar This essay presents an autoethnography of a gay man’s experiences in an open relationship. While one’s relationship with their partner is the primary way in which one experiences and lives one’s sexuality, in an open relationship one can also form connections with others. This essay...

... difficulty redeeming themself and restoring their reality primarily because society is reluctant to let the person move past the injured or addicted identity. The author utilizes autoethnography and the idea of the antihero to show the social process where a spoiled identity can be reinterpreted into a new...

...Julie L. Pennington Using autoethnography, this study examines the author’s perspectives and understandings of their learning during a reading professional development program. Findings demonstrate the importance of understanding teacher career stages, types of teacher knowledge, and stages...

...Roslyn S. Fraser In this autoethnography, the author uses racial formation theory to contextualize her family experiences and the life story told to her by her grandmother. In an effort to clarify some aspects of family history after her grandmother passed away, the author searched Australian...

... they diverge while also detailing a personal journey from frustration to integration, identity reformation, and resilience. email: [email protected] © 2024 by The Regents of the University of California 2024 autoethnography sight privilege vision loss identity resilience I sit...

...Elizabeth Case This essay presents a visual journal that I created for a field season on Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica, as a way both to record states of dissociation/depersonalization and track my gender identity. Drawing on autoethnography as a method of inquiry, I created a pocket-sized journal...

...Robert C. Mizzi; Jordan Laidlaw This article explores the nuances of applying Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to autoethnography. The authors argue that ANT-informed autoethnography may broaden the understanding of how social and material networks are interrelated and can influence research. Two...

... by The Regents of the University of California 2024 Autoethnography is a transformative research method 7 with many practical implications. Specifically, autoethnography “changes time, requires vulnerability, fosters empathy, embodies creativity and innovation, eliminates boundaries, honors subjectivity...

...Alec Grant; Susan Young This autoethnography is written in three parts and is influenced by layered account writing principles. In part one, the first author develops his “Scotoethnography.” In a poetic and prose mixture of Scots and Standard English, he critically explores his early socialization...

... and writing about the status of women through a different kind of feminist lens, and indeed, the capacity of autoethnography to get down to the roots of this dilemma as it is being played out in the fields of Gender Studies today.    Her words began to soar high     And said bye, so long, farewell...

...Peter Joseph Gloviczki In this autoethnography, written mid-pandemic in 2021, I make sense of time, space, and place within the context of loss in our pandemic moment. I hope it encourages others to make sense of emotional landscapes in our changing times. email: [email protected] ©...

... of California 2023 autoethnography anorexia nervosa eating disorders therapy I selected autoethnographic methodology not because my story is better than others, more accessible, and/or “the” only story, but because I realize, as Adams, Jones, and Ellis explain, that research “can no longer...

... student’s noncompliance as a strategy for maintaining his sense of self and of culture in an environment that threatened both. I use autoethnography as a method to learn what my student was teaching me, and consider how classroom teachers might learn from and be changed by the resistive actions...

.... email: [email protected] © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023 autoethnography racial identity looking-glass self On May 31, 2019, Netflix released When They See Us , a four-part miniseries about the Central Park Five, a group of Black teenagers falsely accused...

...Grace Giorgio This autoethnography is about the author’s arranged marriage to a Jewish, Soviet scientist, a transaction meant to release him and his family from their home country at a time when leaving for Jews was nearly impossible. Arranged marriages offered possibility but brought subjective...

...Al Evangelista; KG Hutchins; Kathleen Ragon The label “autoethnography” has been applied to a wide range of knowledge-producing practices, from what might be considered “normal” science to narrative-driven writing to performance. These debates highlight some of the most fundamental tensions about...

...Cimmiaron F. Alvarez Sexual violence in its many forms is experienced by an overwhelming number of women and men in the United States. 1 Yet, women who are survivors of sexual violence who are then accused of similar sexual violence lack a voice in the literature. In this autoethnography...

... to become a gendered and sexual body at all. © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 transgender queer critical erotic/a autoethnography psychoanalysis I am bent over a cold wooden table in the dark outdoor backroom of Manhandler Saloon, a dive fag bar on the outskirts...

...Alicia Smith-Tran This article explores the complexities and contingencies of pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The author uses autoethnography to describe the lived experience of navigating the conflicting feelings and nuances of daily life as an expectant person during a global health...

.... In contrast to these two works, in form and style the Dialogues have hitherto been thought of as one of a kind, an unparalleled anomaly. In this essay, it will be argued that the Dialogues are an early example of autoethnography. It will be shown how the concept of autoethnography may help us to better...