Autoethnography in the 21st Century, Volume I

Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle is Professor of English at The College of New Jersey, USA. Her work appears in Life Writing, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, The European Journal of Life Writing, Persona Studies, and a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. She was the 2021-22 Fulbright Research Chair of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alberta in Edmonton Canada. Her books, Américanas, Autocracy, and Autobiographical Innovation: Overwriting the Dictator (2020) and and Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood: In the Spaces Provided (2023) are published with Routledge Press in its Auto/biography Studies Series. Her current project, tentatively titled Life’s Work: Career Narrative as Autobiography in the North American Academy, is a study of functional forms of life writing in academic careers. She serves as Editor in Chief of a/b: Auto/biography Studies.

Introduction - Autoethnography and Beyond: Colonialism, Immigration, Embodiment, and Belonging 1. Manthia Diawara’s Autoethnographic Forays in Memoir and Film from ‘Counter’ to ‘Strong’ to ‘Beyond’ 2. ‘The Synergy Between You’: Mothers, Nannies, and Collaborative Caregiving in Contemporary Matroethnographies 3. Becoming a Settler Descendant: Critical Engagements with Inherited Family Narratives of Indigeneity, Agriculture and Land in a (Post)Colonial Context 4. Materialising the Decolonising Autobiography 5. Spectator Curator: An Autoethnographic Tour of a Latinx in Canada 6. On Being Impossible: Thoughts on Ethnicity, Embodiment and Kinship 7. Bitter/Love: A Mixed-Race Body Archive 8. Details Optional: An Account of Academic Promotion Relative to Opportunity 9. Journalling in the Currents of Yin and Yang: Adrift in the Chinese Academic Job Market