ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we use autoethnography to write through and within a teaching–advising relationship. In so doing, we articulate the tensions such a shifting and changing relationship brings to bear. Through narrating these tensions, we develop facets of autoethnographic anxiety, the specific sense of anxiety associated with narrative vulnerability, personal response, evaluation, narrative compulsion, and relational commitment. Autoethnographic anxiety presents unique joys and challenges when experienced in the context of teaching and advising relationships.
