1st Edition

Assessing Autoethnography Notes on Analysis, Evaluation, and Craft

By Andrew F. Herrmann, Tony E. Adams Copyright 2025
190 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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. Taking each of the three parts of auto-, ethno-, and -graphy in detail, Herrmann, and Adams, provide... Read more

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Coming to Autoethnography

1. On Being Homo Assessors

2. The “Graphy” of Autoethnography: The Craft of Writing (about Oneself)

3. The “Auto” of Autoethnography: Narrating the Self and Assessing the I

4. The “Ethno” of Autoethnography: Assessing Culture and (Mis)uses of Others

Conclusion: Practical Advice and a Few Warnings

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Andrew F. Herrmann (Ph.D., University of South Florida) is 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).