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About the Book
Reviewer’s Notes
Carole Deletiner
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
Melanie
Joomi Park
Rattling Thoughts
Neziah Doe
Southern Belle
William Rossi
The Battle
Emma Suleski
The Woman with the Purple Mat
Heather Brackman
Steven Bertram
Anna Ehart
The Man
Justine Giardina
Colors, Lines, and Shapes
Jillian McDonnell
Angelic Atmosphere
Chadbourne Oliver
Sylvia
Tyana Soto
One
Adriana Pauly
Sight
Fastforward
Reflections
Zachary Volosky
Unfortunate Truths
Hanatomy
Hannah Lajba
What I Never Thought
Or Gotham
Past Midnight
Jeffrey Cheung
Five Feet Mighty
The Curse
Memory of the Maine
A Memory of Mr. Oko
Inhale, Exhale
An Honest Living
A-Relief
How to Survive
A Living Contradiction
Mike Gomez
Georgia on My Mind
To the Center
Growing Through Dirt
Magdalene Moore
Playbill
I Told You So
Genetic Disposition
Shomer Nagia
Brooklyn, Madness, Lust, Death, and the Apocalypse
Mommy
Katie Braner
The Job That You Want
Self-Destruct
Danny Gomez
In-Patient
Daringly Different
Two Places, One Home
Maria Beyer
See the World
Manhattan
November First
Get a Grip
Room in the Back
Aging Not so Gracefully
Anne Ehart
There and Back Again: A Comic-Con Tale
Sundays
Family Ties
Focus
Erika Veurink
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