RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 I Mean There’s Nothing to Worry About…Until There’s Something to Worry About
JF International Review of Qualitative Research
FD University of California Press
SP 249
OP 257
DO 10.1525/irqr.2019.12.3.249
VO 12
IS 3
A1 Scott, Julie-Ann
YR 2019
UL http://irqr.ucpress.edu/content/12/3/249.abstract
AB This autoperformance script maps the journey to tenure and promotion to full professor of a personal narrative researcher and performance artist in a supportive, affirming communication studies department in a regional state university with the Carnegie classification of “higher research activity.” The writer/performer/researcher enacts an autoarchaeological analysis of annual review comments combined with autoethnographic (re)creations of collegial interactions. The script illuminates underlying tensions surrounding interpretive, creative, qualitative scholarship. The writer/performer/researcher asserts that while autoethnographic performance scholarship has gained legitimacy through the success of multiple high-profile scholars and publishing outlets, questions and vulnerabilities linked to the postpositivist biases endure and require our continued attention.