Creative Insubordination Research: Pushing Methodological Boundaries — Performing Dissertation Research — Liberating Academic Writing

Session Type: Virtual Symposium

Abstract

Multiethnic researchers engage in dialogue on developing social justice and creative insubordination inquries and using Black Feminist methodology/Black Feminist narrative, speculative essays, speculative memoir, cross-cultural narrative inquiry, personal, passionate, and participatory inquiry, composite counterstories, Black speculative fiction, autobiographical writings of women of color, and Latinx aesthetics as creative forms of inquiry to push methodological boundaries, perform dissertation writing, and liberate academic writing by diving into life, writing into contradictions, and living against oppressions in schools, families, and communities in the U. S. South. Theoretical traditions, creative forms of inquiry, and modes of representation and expression will be explored. Innovative writings engendered from the inquiries will be demonstrated. Potentials, challenges, and future directions of creative inquiries and representations will be discussed.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies

Chair

• Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University

Papers

• Freedom's Song: Cultivating Creativity and Releasing Imagination Through Music — Speculative Memoir - Amanda Gonzales, Georgia Southern University

• Hyphenated Identity and Negotiated Intersectionality: A Memoir of a First-Generation Nigerian American Male Teacher in an Inner-City Title I Elementary School in Georgia - Gerald Nwachukwu, Georgia Southern University

• In the Midst but Nowhere: Cross-Cultural Narrative Inquiry Into the Educational Experience of Three Women Doctoral Students With International Backgrounds in the U.S. Rural South - Ru Li, Maynard Jackson High School

• Latinx Aesthetics ~ Becoming a Mexican American in the U.S. South: Autobiographical Narrative of Liberation - Claudia Martinez, Tattnall County School System

• Otherwise Futures Reimagined: Afro-Futurism as Liberation for Black Women — A Speculative Fiction - Khristian Cooper, Pebblebrook High School

Discussants

• William H. Schubert, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Peggy Shannon-Baker, Georgia Southern University