Curating the Self and Embracing the Community: Autoethnographic Evocations of U.S. Doctoral Students in the Fields of Social Sciences and Humanities (The Doctoral Journey in Education, 1) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004678077 ISBN 13: 9789004678071

Publisher: Brill, 2023

Synopsis

This edited volume comprises a compilation of autoethnographic evocations from U.S. doctoral students in the fields of social sciences and humanities, who narrate and analyze their experiences in the doctoral journey and beyond. Through 11 select contributions, the book examines the intersections and shifting roles of the personal and the community in the doctoral student journey, illustrating the complex and unique nature of pursuing a doctoral degree. Part 1, Curating the Self, includes five autoethnographic accounts that speak directly to the personal challenges and transformations experienced in the doctoral journey. Part 2, Embracing the Community, includes six autoethnographic accounts illustrating supportive communities’ life-changing power during the doctoral journey.

Contributors are: Gabriel T. Acevedo Velázquez, Ahmad A. Alharthi, Afiya Armstrong, Nick Bardo, Caitlin Beare, Rebecca Borowski, Anya Ezhevskaya, Christopher Fornaro, Melinda Harrison, Linda Helmick, Joanelle Morales, Olya Perevalova, Alexis Saba, Kimberly Sterin, Katrina Struloeff, Rebecca L. Thacker, Lisa D. Wood, Erin H. York, Christel Young and Nara Yun.

About this title

About the Author

Luis Javier Pentón Herrera is Full Professor at the Akademia Ekonomiczno-Humanistyczna w Warszawie, Poland, the Coordinator of the Graduate TESOL Certificate at The George Washington University, United States, and Co-Editor of Tapestry: A Multimedia Journal for Teachers and English Learners.

Ethan Trinh is a Vietnamese, queer, non-binary, immigrant, researcher, and critical language teacher educator and earned their doctorate at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Their works focus on emotions and well-being in language education that embraces queerness as a healing teaching and research practice.


Bedrettin Yazan is Associate Professor in the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His research focuses on language teacher identity, language policy and planning, and World Englishes. Methodologically he is interested in critical autoethnography, narrative inquiry, and qualitative case study.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004678077
• ISBN 13: 9789004678071
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Pentón Herrera Luis Javier, Trinh Ethan, Yazan Bedrettin