Tension plagues the relationship between the author and his father when it comes to golf-
and gay-related issues. The author is also stuck between two canonical stories, one that says …

The authors describe the history of autoethnography, particularly within the communication
discipline; discuss key characteristics of autoethnography and identify the purposes of doing …

Autoethnography is an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and
systematically analyze personal experience in order to understand cultural experience. This …

… , TONY ADAMS, AND CAROLYN ELLIS 18 Unlike the stories that Stacy Holman Jones and
Tony Adams … have so many superb students, such as Tony, who came to us already versed in …

Motivated by the death of his partner, Adams seeks to redefine the closet as a relational
construct between all people and all sexualities. The closet is explored at each stage—entering it…

In this definitive reference volume, almost fifty leading thinkers and practitioners of autoethnographic
research—from four continents and a dozen disciplines—comprehensively cover its …

This essay focuses on intersections of reflexivity as both an orientation to research and a
writing practice that brings together the method of autoethnography and the paradigm of queer …

If we use stories as “equipment for living,” as tools to understand, negotiate, and make sense
of situations we encounter, then a discussion of narrative ethics is a relevant, if not required…

In this essay, I illustrate how autoethnography can make more meaningful, socially-relevant
communication research possible. I also describe six interrelated joys of autoethnography, …

This chapter details the authors’ approach to understanding and practicing autoethnography.
It begins by defining autoethnography and describing its history and emergence within …