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Overview

Carolyn Ellis is affiliated with the University of South Florida in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a particular focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Human Factors and Ergonomics, and Literature and Literary Theory.

The main topics of their work include Participatory Visual Research Methods, Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics, Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics, Innovative Education and Learning Practices, Social Representations and Identity, Coaching Methods and Impact, and Adult and Continuing Education Topics.

Ellis has published multiple papers in various academic venues. Some recent publications include:

  • "Why Autoethnography?" (2022) in Social Work and Social Sciences Review
  • "Autoethnography" (2020) in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
  • "A Researcher and Survivor of the Holocaust Connect and Make Meaning during the COVID-19 Pandemic*" (2020) in Journal of Loss and Trauma
  • "Compassionate Interviewing: Meta-Communicating Care and Embracing Interruptions" (2021) in Qualitative Inquiry
  • "Surviving Laurel Richardson's Whirlwinds: 'Being With' Loss and Grief" (2023) in International Review of Qualitative Research

Frequent publication venues include Qualitative Inquiry, International Review of Qualitative Research, Journal of Autoethnography, Sexualidad Salud y Sociedad (Rio de Janeiro), and Social Work and Social Sciences Review.

Collaborative efforts are evident in Ellis's career, working often with coauthors such as Arthur P. Bochner, Tony E. Adams, Jerry Rawicki, Natânia Lopes, and Andrea Ploder.

Best Publications

  • Autoethnography, Personal Narrative, Reflexivity: Researcher as Subject

    Carolyn S Ellis;Arthur Bochner

  • The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography

    Carolyn S Ellis

  • AUTOETHNOGRAPHY: AN OVERVIEW

    Carolyn Ellis;Tony E. Adams;Arthur P. Bochner

  • Telling Secrets, Revealing Lives: Relational Ethics in Research With Intimate Others

    Carolyn S Ellis

  • Analyzing Analytic Autoethnography: An Autopsy

    Carolyn S. Ellis;Arthur P. Bochner

  • Handbook of Autoethnography

    Stacy Linn Holman Jones;Tony E Adams;Carolyn Ellis

  • Sociological Introspection and Emotional Experience

    Carolyn S Ellis

  • Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Emotionally about Our Lives

    Carolyn Ellis

  • Composing Ethnography: Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing

    Carolyn Ellis;Arthur P. Bochner

  • Ethnographically speaking : Autoethnography, Literature, and Aesthetics

    Arthur P. Bochner;Carolyn Ellis

  • Their Story/My Story/Our Story: Including the Researcher's Experience in Interview Research

    Carolyn Ellis;Leigh Berger

  • Writing the New Ethnography

    Arthur P. Bochner;Carolyn Ellis;H. L. Goodall Jr.

  • Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories

    Arthur Bochner;Carolyn Ellis

  • Autoethnography: Understanding Qualitative Research

    Tony Adams;Stacy Linn Holman Jones;Carolyn Ellis

  • Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work

    Carolyn S Ellis

  • Telling and Performing Personal Stories

    Carolyn Ellis;Arthur Bochner

  • There Are Survivors: Telling a Story of Sudden Death

    Carolyn S Ellis

  • Autoethnography as Constructionist Project

    Carolyn S Ellis;L Richardson

  • Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness

    Carolyn S Ellis

  • Introduction: Coming to Know Autoethnography as More than a Method

    Stacy Linn Holman Jones;Tony Adams;Carolyn Ellis

  • He(art)ful Autoethnography

    Carolyn S Ellis

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur P. Bochner
Arthur P. Bochner University of South Florida
Norman K. Denzin
Norman K. Denzin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kenneth J. Gergen
Kenneth J. Gergen Swarthmore College
Janice M. Morse
Janice M. Morse University of Utah
Yvonna S. Lincoln
Yvonna S. Lincoln Texas A&M University

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