Autoethnography in the 21st Century, Volume II

Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle is Professor of English at The College of New Jersey. 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 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: Genealogy, Memory, Media, Witness 1. Where the Centres Line Up: Finding Myself in the Fabric of the Highlands 2. Writing Ourselves into Time: Stories of Indo-Trinidadian Women 3. Strangers in a Strange Land: Jewish Memories of Istanbul in the Memoirs of Roni Margulies 4. The Language of Food: Semiotics in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Gastrographies 5. Hip Hop, La Crónica and Epiphany in Mexico City: Performative Research, Methodological Identities and Affective Analysis 6. Arriving on YouTube: Vlogs, Automedia and Autoethnography 7. Embodied Dread in Covid-19 Images and Narratives 8. Embracing the ‘Good-enough’—Teaching, Learning, Living During the COVID-19 Lockdown