Finding Healing in a Woman's Faculty Co-Mentoring Circle: Processing Through Collaborative Autoethnographic Poetic Transcription

• In Event: Thursday Roundtable Session 4:20 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Mentoring Through the Eyes of a Woman (Table 10)

Abstract

In this study, four ethnically and racially diverse women faculty at different academic ranks and situated in different universities across the U.S. engaged in a collaborative autoethnography via poetic transcription. Guided by the concepts of healing and womanhood as a framework, they examined how being a part of a long-standing co-mentoring circle enabled individual and collective healing. Poetic transcription was also harnessed as a means of disrupting current hegemonic and scripted notions of qualitative inquiry to embrace an arts-based perspective of research, thereby examining how this particular methodological approach aided in this healing process as well.

Authors

• Melissa A. Martinez, Texas State University

• Amy Serafini, Auburn University

• Shannon M. Calderone, Washington State University

• Maritza Lozano, California State University - Fullerton