Tony E. Adams

Tony Adams is Caterpillar Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Bradley University. He received an A.S. degree from Danville Area Community College, a B.A. and a M.S. degree from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and a Ph.D. from the University of South Florida. Before Bradley, he worked at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) for nine years. At NEIU, he served as the Director of Graduate Studies (2011-2014) and Chair of Communication, Media, and Theatre (2014-2017). In 2017, he was named the Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Professor, the highest research award at NEIU; in 2021, he was named a Caterpillar Professor, the highest research award at Bradley.

Tony has written three books—Narrating the Closet: An Autoethnography of Same Sex Desire (Routledge), Autoethnography (Oxford University Press; co-authored with Carolyn Ellis and Stacy Holman Jones), and Living Sexuality: Storying LGBTQ Relationships, Identities, and Desires (Brill; co-authored with Keith Berry and Catherine Gillotti). Tony also has edited six books: the Handbook of Autoethnography (Routledge, two editions [2013, 2022]; co-edited with Stacy Holman Jones and Carolyn Ellis), On (Writing) Families: Autoethnographies of Presence and Absence, Love and Loss (Brill; co-edited with Jonathan Wyatt), Doing Autoethnography (Brill; co-edited with Sandra L. Pensoneau-Conway and Derek M. Bolen), International Perspectives on Autoethnographic Research and Practice (Routledge; co-edited with Lydia Turner, Nigel Short, and Alec Grant), and Advances in Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry: Reflections on the Legacy of Carolyn Ellis and Arthur Bochner (Routledge; co-edited with Robin Boylorn and Lisa Tillmann). Tony is a co-editor (with Arthur Bochner and Carolyn Ellis) of the Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives book series (Routledge), and founding co-editor (with Andrew Herrmann) of the Journal of Autoethnography (University of California Press).

For more information about his work, visit www.TonyEAdams.com