Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom

Table of Contents

• • About the Book
  • Reviewer’s Notes

• Teaching Autoethnography

• • Introduction
  • 1. Understanding our Students’ Relationship to “I”
  • 2. Getting Started in the Classroom
  • 3. Writing Essays for Class: The First Steps
  • 4. Workshop and Peer Review Process
  • 5. Memory/Character Essays
  • 6. Writing about Spaces and Events
  • 7. The Autoethnography Project
  • 8. Choosing Topics for the Autoethnography
  • 9. The Interview Process
  • 10. Conducting Observations
  • 11. Putting It All Together
  • 12. Challenges of Personal Writing
  • 13. Concluding Thoughts
  • 14. Sample Class Schedule
  • 15. Additional Readings on Autoethnography

• Deep Observation Assignment: Eleven Examples

• • Deep Observation Assignment Instructions
  • Melanie
  • Rattling Thoughts
  • Southern Belle
  • The Battle
  • The Woman with the Purple Mat
  • Steven Bertram
  • The Man
  • Colors, Lines, and Shapes
  • Angelic Atmosphere
  • Sylvia
  • One

• Self-as-Character Assignment: Eight Examples

• • Self-as-Character Assignment Instructions
  • Sight
  • Fastforward
  • Reflections
  • Unfortunate Truths
  • Hanatomy
  • What I Never Thought
  • Past Midnight
  • Five Feet Mighty

• Memory Assignment: Six Examples

• • Memory Assignment Instructions
  • The Curse
  • Memory of the Maine
  • A Memory of Mr. Oko
  • Inhale, Exhale
  • An Honest Living
  • A-Relief

• Memory/Character Essay: Thirteen Examples

• • Memory/Character Essay Instructions
  • How to Survive
  • A Living Contradiction
  • Georgia on My Mind
  • To the Center
  • Growing Through Dirt
  • Playbill
  • I Told You So
  • Genetic Disposition
  • Shomer Nagia
  • Brooklyn, Madness, Lust, Death, and the Apocalypse
  • Mommy
  • The Job That You Want
  • Self-Destruct

• The Space or Event Essay: Thirteen Examples

• • The Space or Event Essay Instructions
  • In-Patient
  • Daringly Different
  • Two Places, One Home
  • See the World
  • Manhattan
  • November First
  • Get a Grip
  • Room in the Back
  • Aging Not so Gracefully
  • There and Back Again: A Comic-Con Tale
  • Sundays
  • Family Ties
  • Focus

• The Autoethnography: Ten Examples

• • The Autoethnography Instructions
  • On Anarchism in New York
  • Allies, Advocates, Activists
  • Unicorny, the Only Way a Coder Will Define Rails
  • Friendship Is Magic
  • Gin and Tonic: A Look into the Subculture of Taxidermists
  • Don't Judge the Bible by Its Cover: An Honest Story with a Cliché Title
  • Autoethnography on Manhattan Drag
  • NaNoWriMo
  • Steel Paradise: The Hardcore Metal Aesthetic
  • YouTube: Science Isn’t Just for Geeks Anymore
• • Works Cited
  • About the Author
  • About Open SUNY Textbooks