About the Author

Stacy Holman Jones is Associate Professor, Graduate Coordinator, and Co-Director of the Performance Ensemble at California State University, Northridge, USA. Her research focuses broadly on how performance constitutes socially, culturally, and politically resistive and transformative activity; how gender and desirous identities are created, made known, and negotiated; and how the work of feminism gets done in and though interpretive methods, especially cultural critique, critical autoethnography, and performative writing. She is the author of Kaleidoscope Notes: Writing WomenAEs Music and Organizational Culture (1998) and Torch Singing: Performing Resistance and Desire from Edith Piaf to Billie Holiday (2007). Stacy is the recipient of several research and teaching/mentoring awards, including the Janice Hocker Rushing Early Career Research Award and the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and GenderAEs Feminist Teacher/Mentor Award. She teaches graduate courses in performance, feminist studies and qualitative methods, including performing ethnography and autoethnography. Tony E. Adams is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Media and Theatre at Northeastern Illinois University, USA. Currently, he studies and teaches about interpersonal and family communication, qualitative research, communication theory, and sex, gender, and sexuality; he has published more than 30 articles, book chapters, and reviews in these areas. His book, Narrating the Closet: An Autoethnography of Same Sex Desire (2011), received the 2012 National Communication Association Ethnography Division Best Book Award and the 2012 Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender Outstanding Book Award. Carolyn Ellis is a professor of communication and sociology at the University of South Florida, USA. She is honored to have received the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award in Qualitative Inquiry from The International Center for Qualitative Inquiry. Her books are foundational to the study of autoethnography and include The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work ; and Music Autoethnographies: Making Autoethnography Sing/Making Music Personal .

Reviews

"The Handbook of Autoethnography offers an invigorating set of ideas to the history, practice, and interpretation of lived experience. The serious treatment and strong focus on writing and reflection make this collection essential for emerging and experienced narrative scholars. I will certainly use this book in my Oral history, Life History and Biography Methods course." --Valerie J. Janesick, Professor, University of South Florida

"The Handbook of Autoethnography provides the first comprehensive collection of autoethnographic scholarship illustrating the depth and breadth of autoethnographic praxis. The authors offer clear and substantive pedagogic methodology as well as challenge the assumptions and scholarly parameters of autoethnography. A must-read for the numerous disciplinary practitioners interested in the liberatory work of autoethnography." --Tami Spry, author of Body, Paper, Stage: Writing and Performing Autoethnography

"In this handbook, we not only learn about the personal stories of contributors but also the social world in which we are all situated. A text for all researchers and students across the humanities, social sciences, communication, education, social work, and health." --Pranee Liamputtong, La Trobe University


"This dream-team of editors and authors do not disappoint. Handbook of Autoethnography is a beautiful, significant and inspiring collection that both synthesizes the field and expands it." --Patricia Leavy, independent researcher and novelist

"This evocative volume reinforces the importance of storytelling and personal narrative in the social sciences. It brings new insights to the applications of autoethnography in the twenty-first century and provides a valuable resource for practitioners of self-reflexive approaches." --Deborah Reed-Danahay, University at Buffalo, SUNY


"This is an excellent collection - my much-used hard cover copy is showing signs of wear (but no tear!) from doctoral student use and chapters in the book underpinned a number of revisions I recommended in a recent thesis examination. Highly recommended!"
--Jon Austin, University of Southern Queensland