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Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives

Series Editors:
Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis
(University of South Florida)

Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives publishes narrative representations of qualitative research projects. The series editors seek manuscripts that blur the boundaries between humanities and social sciences. We encourage novel and evocative forms of expressing concrete lived experience, including autoethnographic, literary, poetic, artistic, visual, performative, critical, multi-voiced, conversational, and co-constructed representations. We are interested in ethnographic narratives that depict local stories; employ literary modes of scene setting, dialogue, character development, and unfolding action; and include the author's critical reflections on the research and writing process, such as research ethics, alternative modes of inquiry and representation, reflexivity, and evocative storytelling.

Proposals and manuscripts should be directed to abochner@cas.usf.edu

Series editors  Art Bochner and Carolyn Ellis are leaders in the alternative ethnography movement. They have coedited two important readers on this topic--Composing Ethnography and Ethnographically Speaking-- and written numerous other books and articles in this field, most recently Ellis's The Ethnographic I. Bochner has recently been elected future president of the National Communication Association.

Series Titles

Accidental Ethnography
An Inquiry into Family Secrecy
Christopher N. Poulos (Author), Harold Lloyd Goodall , Jr. (Foreword By)
Erotic Mentoring
Women’s Transformations in the University
Janice Hocker Rushing (Author)
Guyana Diaries
Women’s Lives Across Difference
Kimberly D. Nettles
Intimate Colonialism
Head, Heart, and Body in West African Development Work
Laurie L. Charlés
Last Writes
A Daybook for a Dying Friend
Laurel Richardson (Author)
Revision
Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work
Carolyn Ellis
Trickster in Tweed
The Quest for Quality in a Faculty Life
Thomas S. Frentz
Writing Qualitative Inquiry
Self, Stories, and Academic Life
Harold Lloyd Goodall , Jr.

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