Questioning "Queer" in Qualitative Research

• In Event: Exploring and Questioning: Frameworks for Critical Positionality

Abstract

Qualitative research has long included discussions of “queer” and “queerness.” The elasticity and exploration in qualitative research unsurprisingly works well with explorations of fluid and nonnormative ways of being, loving, and doing. In light of 2021’s theme emphasizing educational responsibility, the pervasiveness of discussions on queer issues in educational research prompted us to wonder: How do queer topics get taken up in qualitative scholarship? Our guiding research question was:
● How do qualitative educational researchers discuss queer topics in peer-reviewed scholarship?
The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of that literature, and in doing so to examine the implications of these discussions for both queer and qualitative research.

Authors

• Stephanie Anne Shelton, The University of Alabama

• Kamden Strunk, Auburn University