ABSTRACT
First, the core principles of autoethnography and the researcher qualifications for writing the genre are discussed. Two example selections follow. The first, “Gay-Tex-Mex: Autoethnographic Vignettes,” recounts related memories about growing up gay and Hispanic in conservative Texas. The second selection, “Thank You, Mrs. Whitehouse: The Memory Work of One Student About His High School English Teacher, Forty Years Later,” assembles a collage of vignettes about a gifted master teacher and her impact on the author’s life and career.
