Jason D. DeHart is a passionate educator actively engaged in finding what works for connecting readers with literacy practices. He served as a middle grades English teacher for eight years; has worked at the university level at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, as well as at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Appalachian State University; and currently works with high school students in Wilkesboro, North Carolina.

About the Editor

List of Contributors

What Is It to Be in A World?: An Introduction to Probing Autoethnography

Jason D. DeHart

Chapter 1

The Seeds That Were Planted: How Schools Cultivate Erasure in the Lives of Latinx Children

Jennifer M. Barreto

Jonathan M. Coker

Chapter 2

"Spinner Rack Kids": Autoethnographic Reflections on Fandom and the Changing Structure of Texts and Self

Jason D. DeHart

Chapter 3

A Critical Autoethnography of an International Graduate Teaching Assistant (IGTA)

Thir B. Budhathoki

Chapter 4

Attending to the (Re)past: A Blackgirl Autoethnography of Mourning

S. R. Toliver

Chapter 5

Autoethnographic Exploration of a First-Generation Academic and the Role of Literacy

Jason D. DeHart

Chapter 6

Becoming a Teacher-Researcher-Writer in the Indonesian EFL Context: A Multimodal Autoethnography

Sandi Ferdiansyah

Chapter 7

Weaving the Personal and Political: Autoethnography as Exploratory Research Writing

Leslie S. Cook

Chapter 8

Critical Autoethnography and Disability

Karen Zecca

Afterword

The Self(ed) Meta-narrative as Research: Limitations and Liberties

Jason D. DeHart