Below are select articles and book chapters, and a few encyclopedia entries. For a complete list of my writing, refer to my CV. If you would like an article, chapter, or entry, contact me at Tony.E.Adams@gmail.com
“Autoethnography Lets Us Explore What Other Methods Can’t”: An Interview with Dr. Tony Adams
2026, New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development, co-authored with Craig McGill
Autoethnography, Performance, and Personal Experience: Contemplating the Limits of Artificial Intelligence
2025, Text and Performance Quarterly
Making a Case for Autoethnography
2025, Journal of Autoethnography, co-authored with Andrew F. Herrmann
On Being Sex Affirmative: Advocating Progressive Sexual Ideals and Practices,
2025, Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication Pedagogy: Charting New Futurities
Craving Bigger Bodies: Size, Sexuality, and Becoming Larger
2024, Consuming Bodies: Body Commodification and Embodiment in Late Capitalist Societies
Autoethnography as Becoming-with
2024, The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research (6th ed.), co-authored with Stacy Holman Jones
Good Autoethnography
2023, Journal of Autoethnography, co-authored with Andrew F. Herrmann
Autoethnography and the “So What?” Question
2022, Journal of Autoethnography, co-authored with Andrew F. Herrmann
Learning, Living, and Leaving Monogamy
2022, Inside Relationships: Critical Case Studies in Interpersonal Communication, co-authored with Dominic A. Walker-Pecoraro
Queer Theory: Troubling Interpersonal Expectations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
2022, Engaging Theories in Interpersonal Communication, co-authored with Jimmie Manning
On (Not) Living Past 30
2022, The Everyday Lives of Gay Men: Autoethnographies of the Ordinary
#YouToo: Notes on Sexual Harassment and Assault in the Academy
2021, International Review of Qualitative Research, co-authored with Sandra L. Faulkner
Expanding our Autoethnographic Future
2020, Journal of Autoethnography, co-authored with Andrew F. Herrmann
Organizing Desire: The Queer Bar
2020, The Routledge International Handbook of Organizational Autoethnography
Autoethnography as Applied Communication Research
2020, Handbook of Applied Communication Research, co-authored with Arthur P. Bochner
Critical Rhetoric, Relationality, and Temporality: A Case for Forgiveness
2020, International Journal of Communication
Communication is Production
2020, Communication Is … Perspectives on Theory, co-authored with Anji L. Phillips
Public Ethnography
2019, The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship, co-authored with Robin M. Boylorn
Looking Out: Gay Bars, Safe Spaces, and the Pulse Massacre
2018, Qualitative Inquiry
Supervising, Sharing, and Evaluating Autoethnography
2018, International Perspectives on Autoethnographic Research and Practice
Narrative Ethics
2018, International Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods, co-authored with Derek M. Bolen
Autoethnography
2018, International Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods, co-authored with Carolyn Ellis and Stacy Holman Jones
Queer Studies
2018, International Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods, co-authored with Stacy Holman Jones
Critical Autoethnography, Education, and a Call for Forgiveness
2017, International Journal of Multicultural Education
Autoethnographic Responsibilities
2017, International Review of Qualitative Research
The Art of Autoethnography
2017, Handbook of Arts-Based Research, co-authored with Stacy Holman Jones
GLBT Communication Studies
2017, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods
Ethnography
2017, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods, co-authored with Michael Kramer
Narrative Ethics
2017, The Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History, co-authored with Derek M. Bolen
Queering Popular Culture
2016, Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture
Queer and Quare Autoethnography
2016, Qualitative Inquiry Through a Critical Lens, co-authored with Robin M. Boylorn
Watching Reality Television
2016, Popular Culture as Everyday Life
Family Bullies
2016, Journal of Family Communication, co-authored with Keith Berry
The Closet
2016, The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies
Queer Ethnographies/Autoethnographies
2016, The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, co-authored with Stacy Holman Jones
Autoethnography and Family Research
2015, Journal of Family Review & Theory, co-authored with Jimmie Manning
Popular Culture Studies and Autoethnography: An Essay on Method
2015, The Popular Culture Studies Journal, co-authored with Jimmie Manning
Notes on Andy Cohen
2015, The Fantasy of Reality: Critical Essays on The Real Housewives, co-authored with Keith Berry
Undoing the Alphabet: A Queer Fugue on Grief and Forgiveness
2014, Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, co-authored with Stacy Holman Jones
Post-coming Out Complications
2014, Critical Autoethnography: Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life
The Purposes, Practices, and Principles of Autoethnographic Research
2014, The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods, co-authored with Carolyn Ellis
Performing Identity, Critical Reflexivity, and Community: The Hopeful Work of Studying Ourselves and Others
2014, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, co-authored with Stacy Holman Jones
A Complicated Reef: The Relationship Between a Representation and the Represented Phenomenon
2013, Environmental Communication
Frames of Homosexuality:
Comparing Los Angeles Times’ Coverage of California’s Proposition 6 (1978) and Proposition 8 (2008)
2013, Sexuality & Culture
Animals as Media: Speaking Through/With Nonhuman Beings
2013, Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication: Internatural Communication
The Joys of Autoethnography: Possibilities for Communication Research
2012, Qualitative Communication Research
Missing Each Other
2012, Qualitative Inquiry
Telling Stories: Reflexivity, Queer Theory, and Autoethnography
2011, Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, co-authored with Stacy Holman Jones
Autoethnography: An Overview
2011, Forum: Qualitative Social Research, co-authored with Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner, Reprinted in German and Spanish
Why “Video Killed the Radio Star”: Teaching “The Medium is the Message”
2010, Communication Teacher
Paradoxes of Sexuality, Gay Identity, and Coming Out
2010, Symbolic Interaction
Autoethnography and Queer Theory: Making Possibilities
2010, Qualitative Inquiry & Human Rights, co-authored with Stacy Holman Jones
Mothers, Faggots, and Witnessing (Un)Contestable Experience
2009, Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies
truth Troubles
2009, Qualitative Inquiry, co-authored with Jillian Tullis, Chris McRae, and Alisha Vitale
A Review of Narrative Ethics
2008, Qualitative Inquiry
Autoethnography is Queer
2008, Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies, co-authored with Stacy Holman Jones
Seeking Father: Relationally Reframing a Troubled Love Story
2006, Qualitative Inquiry
Speaking for Others: Finding the “Whos” of Discourse
2005, Soundings