Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction to Autoethnography Chapter 2: Autoethnographic Research Design and Philosophy Chapter 3: Doing Autoethnography Chapter 4: Representing Autoethnography Chapter 5: Evaluating Autoethnography Chapter 6: Resources for Doing and Writing Autoethnography References

About the Author

Tony Adams is Associate Professor and Chair of Communication, Media, and Theatre at Northeastern Illinois University. He is the author of Narrating the Closet: An Autoethnography of Same Sex Desire (Left Coast Press, 2011), co-editor with Stacy Holman Jones and Carolyn Ellis of the Handbook of Autoethnography (Left Coast Press, 2013), and co-editor with Jonathan Wyatt of On (Writing) Families: Autoethnographies of Presence and
Absence, Love and Loss (Sense Publishers, 2014). Stacy Holman Jones is Professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Northridge. She is the author of Kaleidoscope Notes: Writing Women's'Music and Organizational Culture (AltaMira) and Torch Singing: Performing Resistance and Desire from Edith Piaf to Billie Holiday (AltaMira) and co-author of Autoethnography (Oxford). She is co-editor (with Carolyn Ellis and Tony E. Adams) of the Handbook of Autoethnography (Left Coast
Press) and Storying Home: Place, Identity, Exile (with Devika Chalwa, Lexington Press). She is also editor of the journal Departures in Critical Qualitative Research published by UCPress. Carolyn Ellis is Distinguished University Professor of Communication at University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. She has published work situated in emotions and interpretive representations of qualitative research, particularly autoethnography. Her current research focuses on working collaboratively with Holocaust survivors

Reviews

"Overall, the text provides a useful, detailed framework for embarking on autoethnographic research, and can be very informative to other qualitative researchers considering the utility of various methods when conceiving and designing a research study." --PsycCRITIQUES