[Commlist] Autoethnographic methods: Reflexive and evocative text production. PhD workshop with Carolyn Ellis, Art Bochner & Oscar Hemer

Autoethnographic methods: Reflexive and evocative text production. PhD 
workshop with Carolyn Ellis, Art Bochner & Oscar Hemer

Ph.D. course at Roskilde University, Denmark. June 19th - 21st, 2019. 4 ECTS

Please read more on: https://study.ruc.dk/class/view/17042

About the course

The main objective of the course is to support the participants' 
reflections and active text production for the PhD thesis. This course 
introduces various autoethnographic approaches that highlight the 
complexity of the researcher's voices, roles and relations with others 
in the research field, as well as provide perspectives on power and 
ethical, affective, bodily, cultural, social and historical dimensions. 
Teachers will exemplify autoethnographic methods based on different 
theoretical foundations and ontological, epistemological and ethical 
premises.

Autoethnography covers well-known sociological and humanistic methods 
for critical-reflexive introspection on the researcher's role. It offers 
new narrative, visual and performative approaches for writing about 
personal experience or telling from her or his own subjectivity. Common 
to auto-ethnographic approaches is that the researcher is clear about 
having a presence in the field and in the text, often by using a 
first-person narrative. Autoethnographic texts cross genres and media, 
e.g. from poetry, personal essays, short stories, visualizations (e.g. 
photos, comics or impressionist drawings) to performative texts, and 
classical and journalistic academic genres.

In short, we will work on issues such as:

• What do the different autoethnographic methods do in terms of 
impacting the researcher's reflection and reflexivity?

• How can the researcher become clear about his or her own involvement 
in creating, feeling, sensing and understanding research and knowledge 
processes using autoethnography?

• How can autoethnographic genres and media be used by the individual 
course participant in a PhD thesis and how can the chosen genres be 
positioned in the spectrum of approaches?

The course includes lectures and writing workshop time for 
autoethnographic text production. The groups are facilitated by the 
three external teachers Carolyn Ellis, Art Bochner and Oscar Homer in 
collaboration with researchers from Roskilde University.

Fee

Free for students enrolled in Danish doctoral schools within the 
humanities. Exemptions from the fee are possible for students from 
Swedish and Norwegian PhD students in the humanities.

All other PhD students are welcome at the price of 2.400 DKK (Danish 
Kroner).

Registration and application

Registration is online, via: https://events.ruc.dk/Autoethnographic

The deadline for registration is March 11th. Applicants will receive 
notice of acceptance via email by April 1st.

Students have to register and upload a pdf with 3 types of texts as 
application.

You can read more about the application materials under “Participation 
requirements for the obtaining of ects points” on 
https://study.ruc.dk/class/view/17042

Languages and preparation

The course lectures will be held mainly in English during the mornings. 
The afternoon is for writing in your chosen language (English, Danish, 
Swedish or Norwegian). Preparation includes reading course literature 
(will be sent out in April). We expect you to read a limited number of 
papers by other PhD students. Further information on readings will be on 
the course site.

Contact

PhD administrator Marianne Sloth Hansen handles the practical aspects, 
you can reach her at (msha /at/ ruc.dk) <mailto:(msha /at/ ruc.dk)>

Please contact Associate Professor Lisbeth Frølunde at (lisbethf /at/ ruc.dk) 
<mailto:(lisbethf /at/ ruc.dk)>if you have questions regarding the course contents.

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