research overview
- My professional activities conceptualize research and teaching as connected activities that draw on literary reading and Arts-Based research perspectives. My current written work considers the role of feeling as necessary in revealing the sense of connectedness across lives that the literary arts make possible. As a writer/researcher/teacher, committed to embracing artful and emotionally evocative affective discourse, I draw on inquiry and writing-based practices adapted from narrative ethnography and A/r/tography. This work offers perspectives designed to re-imagine humanities-based approaches to learning/teaching. As an aesthetic practice of inquiry, A/r/tography conceives arts-based inquiry as drawing on aesthetic sensibilities that require an openness to curiosity while trusting uncertainty. My most recent scholarship, invites readers to explore the literary arts and the possibility they might offer imaginative routes and visceral itineraries into the hearts/minds of others.