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Carolyn Ellis is
professor of communication and sociology at the
University of South
Florida.
She is the author
of Fisher Folk: Two
Communities on Chesapeake Bay, Final Negotiations: A Story of
Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness, The Ethnographic I: A Methodological
Novel about Autoethnography, four edited collections, and more than
100 articles, chapters, essays, and autoethnographic stories. Her
forthcoming book isentitled, Autoethnographic Tales: Rewriting a Life.
She currently is theco-editor for the book series, Writing Lives:
Narrative
Ethnography withLeft Coast Press.
Professor Ellis has
served as President of Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
and chair and founding member of two divisions of national
organizations, "The Ethnography Division" of National Communication
Association and "The Emotions Section" of American
Sociological Association. She has given approximately fifty invited
workshops and
keynote presentations all over the world, including the United
States, South
Africa, Finland, Italy, Canada, China, and Denmark. She has
held honorary and
visiting scholar positions, such as Honorary Professor at
the Communication
University of China. Her work has been featured and discussed in
numerous national and international convention sessions and
panels, books, and
scholarly and review articles.
Dr. Ellis is a
qualitative researcher, who works at the intersection
of
social science and humanities. She focuses on autoethnographic inquiry
and narrative
writing, particularly in the areas of emotions, illness, grief
and loss, aging,
and relationships. Autoethnography connects ethnographic
stories of culture
with personal stories of self. Through describing
concrete details of
a particular life lived, autoethnographies also show
social processes,
conceptualizations, and ways of life experienced more
generally by groups
of people living in similar circumstances.
Along with
her
colleagues, Carolyn has developed research and writing procedures that
reflect the ways
people cope with intense experiences and relate to close
associates in
everyday life. Her goal is to humanize social science
projects, evoke
emotional responses, and open up conversations about lived
experiences,
especially those of trauma and loss.
Carolyn Ellis can be contacted at
Carolyn Ellis,
Prof. of Communication and Sociology
Department of
Communication
4202 E. Fowler
Avenue, CIS1040
Tampa, Fl.
33620-7800
Phone:
813-974-3626
Fax: 813-974-6817
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