Assessing Autoethnography: Notes on Analysis, Evaluation, and Craft

Assessing Autoethnography provides readers with multiple ways to analyze autoethnographies and other forms of personal narrative writing. Given the proliferation of such forms across academic contexts, the book offers a guide of what autoethnography is, why it matters, and how to do it.

Andrew F. Herrmann (Ph.D., University of South Florida) is Associate Professor of Communication at East Tennessee State University. He is the founding co-editor (with Tony Adams) of the Journal of Autoethnography. He edited the award-winning Routledge International Handbook of Organizational Autoethnography (2020). He is co-editor (with Art Herbig) of the Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture book series (Lexington Press).

Tony E. Adams (Ph.D., University of South Florida) is Caterpillar Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Bradley University. He has published ten books, including Narrating the Closet: An Autoethnography of Same-Sex Attraction, Autoethnography (co-authored with Stacy Holman Jones and Carolyn Ellis), and both editions of the Handbook of Autoethnography (co-edited with Stacy Holman Jones and Carolyn Ellis).