Melissa Tombro

Associate Professor Melissa Tombro talks about her book, Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom

Tuesday, November 5, 2019 | 5pm - 6pm
Goodman Center, Library, 4th Fl, E435

Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom is dedicated to the practice of immersive ethnographic and autoethonographic writing that encourages authors to participate in the communities about which they write. The book draws not only on critical qualitative inquiry methods such as interview and observation, but also on theories and sensibilities from creative writing and performance studies, which encourage self-reflection and narrative composition. The book provides approaches anyone can use to explore their communities and write about them first-hand. The methods presented can be used for a single assignment in a larger course or to guide an entire semester through many levels and varieties of informed personal writing.