Essentials of Autoethnography

Christopher N. Poulos, PhD, is professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. An ethnographer and philosopher of communication, he teaches courses in relational and family communication, ethnography, dialogue, and film. His award-winning book, Accidental Ethnography: An Inquiry into Family Secrecy, was published by Left Coast Press in 2009 and reissued as a classic edition in 2018. His work has appeared in Qualitative Inquiry, Communication Theory, Cultural Studies--Critical Methodologies, International Review of Qualitative Research, Qualitative Communication Research, Southern Communication Journal, and several edited books.