ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I explore the risks and rewards of doing autoethnographic research. To that end, I focus on the responses I have received over the past 18 years to my article “Chronicling an Academic Depression,” published by the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography in 2002. I am particularly interested in understanding what readers do with the autoethnographic stories we publish, and how these reader responses might impact our future autoethnographic work.
