Carolyn Ellis

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Carolyn Ellis is an American communication scholar known for her research of autoethnography, a reflexive approach to research, writing, and storytelling that connects the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political. Her research centers on how individuals negotiate identities, emotions, and meaning making in and through close relationships.[1]

She is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of South Florida.[2]

Awards[]

Ellis received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Qualitative Inquiry from the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry in 2012,[3] and a Legacy Lifetime Award from the NCA Ethnography Division in 2013.[4]

Ellis-Bochner Award[]

The Ellis-Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research Award is given annually by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction affiliate of the National Communication Association for the best article, essay, or book chapter in autoethnography and personal narrative research.[4]

Selected publications[]

  • Ellis, C. & Bochner, A (2016) Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories. New York: Routledge
  • Ellis, C. & Patti, C. (2014). With Heart: Compassionate Interviewing and Storytelling with Holocaust Survivors. Storytelling, Self, Society, 10, 389-414.
  • Ellis, C. (2013) (director). Behind the Wall. 45 min. film featuring Jerry Rawicki. Warsaw, Poland: Total Film.
  • Ellis, C. (2009). Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
  • Ellis, C. (2004). The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
  • Ellis, C. (1995). The Other Side of the Fence: Seeing Black and White in a Small, Southern Town. Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 1, 147-167.
  • Ellis, C. (1995). Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

References[]

  1. ^ Jones, Stacy Holman (2004-09-30). "Carolyn Ellis and Art Bochner: Building Connections in Qualitative Research". Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research. 5 (3). doi:10.17169/fqs-5.3.552. ISSN 1438-5627.
  2. ^ "Carolyn Ellis | University of South Florida - Academia.edu". usf.academia.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
  3. ^ "Lifetime Achievement Award | QI2019". Retrieved 2019-05-29.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "NCA Ethnography Division". ethnography.populr.me. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
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