ABSTRACT
W e (Robin and Mark) came to autoethnography for simi-lar reasons; however, our journeys were distinctly different. Robin’s introduction to autoethnography was unexpected. As an undergraduate student at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro she studied English (Creative Writing) and Communication Studies and never imagined the two would coalesce. During the first semester of her master’s program, starstruck and in awe, she listened to her soon-tobe mentor, Bud Goodall, share a story he had written about his mentor. He referred to his “storied scholarship” as autoethnography, or narrative ethnography, a bridge between his cultural curiosities and personal lived experience. The work was beautiful and accessible, and Robin fell in love with the possibilities that existed after that moment, of marrying her love and obsession with storytelling with cultural and social phenomena.
