ABSTRACT
Tony E. Adams is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Media and eatre at Northeastern Illinois University. He attended private Catholic school from age four until eighteen, worked as a bartender at Yellowstone National Park and a teller supervisor at a bank, and has been a vegetarian since 1998. Currently, he studies and teaches about interpersonal and family communication, qualitative research, communication theory, and sex, gender, and sexuality; he has published more than thirty articles, book chapters, and reviews in these areas. His book, Narrating the Closet: An Autoethnography of Same Sex Desire (2011), received the 2012 National Communication Association Ethnography Division Best Book Award and the 2012 Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender Outstanding Book Award. He is in the process of authoring another book about autoethnography with Stacy and Carolyn.
