Carolyn Ellis
{{short description|American communication scholar|bot=PearBOT 5}}
Carolyn Ellis is an American communication scholar known for her research of autoethnography, a reflexive approach to research, writing, and storytelling that connects the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political. Her research centers on how individuals negotiate identities, emotions, and meaning making in and through close relationships.{{cite book |last1=Ellis |first1=Carolyn |title=The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography |date=2004 |publisher=AltaMira Press |location=Walnut Creek, CA |isbn=9780759100510 |url=https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780759100510/The-Ethnographic-I-A-Methodological-Novel-about-Autoethnography}}{{Cite journal|last=Jones|first=Stacy Holman|date=2004-09-30|title=Carolyn Ellis and Art Bochner: Building Connections in Qualitative Research|url=http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/552|journal=Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research|language=en|volume=5|issue=3|doi=10.17169/fqs-5.3.552|issn=1438-5627}}
She is a Distinguished professor Emerita at the University of South Florida.{{Cite web |title=Carolyn Ellis |url=https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/departments/communication/people/faculty/cellis.aspx |access-date=2022-12-13 |website=University of South Florida}}
Ellis received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Qualitative Inquiry from the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry in 2012,{{Cite web|url=https://icqi.org/lifetime-achievement-award/|title=Lifetime Achievement Award {{!}} QI2019|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-29}} and a Legacy Lifetime Award from the NCA Ethnography Division in 2013.{{Cite web|url=http://ethnography.populr.me/|title=NCA Ethnography Division|website=ethnography.populr.me|access-date=2019-05-29}}
Selected publications
- Ellis, C. & Bochner, A (2016) Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories. Routledge
- Adams, T. E., Holman Jones, S., & Ellis, C. (2015). Autoethnography. Oxford University Press.
- Ellis, C. & Patti, C. (2014). With Heart: Compassionate Interviewing and Storytelling with Holocaust Survivors. Storytelling, Self, Society, 10, 389–414.
- Ellis, C. (2013) (director). Behind the Wall. 45 min. film featuring Jerry Rawicki. Warsaw, Poland: Total Film.
- Ellis, C. (2009). Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work. Left Coast Press.
- Ellis, C. (2004). The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography. AltaMira Press.
- Ellis, C. and Bochner, A. (2000) “Autoethnography, Personal Narrative, Reflexivity: Researcher as Subject,” In The Handbook of Qualitative Research (2nd edition), edited by Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln, Sage, pp. 733–768.
- Ellis, C. (1995). The Other Side of the Fence: Seeing Black and White in a Small, Southern Town. Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 1, 147–167.
- Ellis, C. (1995). Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness. Temple University Press.
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