“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

In this interview, Craig and I discuss the purposes and practices of autoethnography, ethical storytelling, methodological integrity, relational accountability, and justice-oriented scholarship.

Autoethnography, Performance, and Personal Experience: Contemplating the Limits of Artificial Intelligence
2025, Text and Performance Quarterly

Drawing on communication, autoethnography, and performance, I consider AI’s limitations in relation to crafting and sharing personal narratives.

Making a Case for Autoethnography
2025, Journal of Autoethnography, co-authored with Andrew F. Herrmann

In our sixth editorial, Andrew and I identify common rationales one can use to articulate the legitimacy and value of autoethnography for unfamiliar audiences.

On Being Sex Affirmative: Advocating Progressive Sexual Ideals and Practices,
2025, Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication Pedagogy: Charting New Futurities

In this chapter, I critique repressive assumptions about intimacy and sexuality and advocate sex-affirming, inclusive relational practices that reimagine desire, commitment, consent, and diverse expressions of intimacy.

Craving Bigger Bodies: Size, Sexuality, and Becoming Larger
2024, Consuming Bodies: Body Commodification and Embodiment in Late Capitalist Societies

In this chapter, I identify and reflect on the paradoxes of growing, maintaining, and desiring bigger bodies.

Autoethnography as Becoming-with
2024, The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research (6th ed.), co-authored with Stacy Holman Jones

Stacy and I describe the history, assumptions, purposes, and applications of autoethnography. We also engage contemporary debates and offer provocations about the method

The Present and Possible Futures of Autoethnography
2024, Journal of Autoethnography, co-authored with Andrew F. Herrmann

In our fifth editorial, Andrew and I reflect on the articles and topics featured in the Journal of Autoethnography, as well as identify topics and areas that would benefit from autoethnographic inquiry.

Good Autoethnography
2023, Journal of Autoethnography, co-authored with Andrew F. Herrmann

In our fourth editorial, Andrew and I offer insights about evaluating autoethnography, specifically what passes, for us and for reviewers, as good and not-so-good autoethnographic texts.

Autoethnography and the “So What?” Question
2022, Journal of Autoethnography, co-authored with Andrew F. Herrmann

In our third editorial, Andrew and I discuss the need for autoethnographers to explain why readers should care about their experiences and how and why their experiences might matter to others.

Learning, Living, and Leaving Monogamy
2022, Inside Relationships: Critical Case Studies in Interpersonal Communication, co-authored with Dominic A. Walker-Pecoraro

In this chapter, Dominic and I describe our experiences with (non)monogamy. We offer ideas for exploring sexual desires and new relational possibilities within committed relationships.

Queer Theory: Troubling Interpersonal Expectations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
2022, Engaging Theories in Interpersonal Communication, co-authored with Jimmie Manning

Jimmie and I outline the intellectual tradition of queer theory within interpersonal communication studies. We identify queer theory’s primary features, goals, and scholars and offer examples and applications of queer theory within relational contexts.

On (Not) Living Past 30
2022, The Everyday Lives of Gay Men: Autoethnographies of the Ordinary

I reflect on how my gay life has progressed through time. I describe moments of pain, resilience, and pride, challenge heteronormative expectations of relationships, and promote new scripts for aging while/as gay.

#YouToo: Notes on Sexual Harassment and Assault in the Academy
2021, International Review of Qualitative Research, co-authored with Sandra L. Faulkner

In this collaborative autoethnography, we unmask our experiences with sexual assault and harassment in academic settings.

Expanding our Autoethnographic Future
2020, Journal of Autoethnography, co-authored with Andrew F. Herrmann

In our first editorial to launch the Journal of Autoethnography, Andrew and I offer a brief overview of autoethnography and advice for submitting manuscripts.

Organizing Desire: The Queer Bar
2020, The Routledge International Handbook of Organizational Autoethnography

I discuss queer bars as vital cultural institutions. I show how they foster safety, community, and belonging and examine their evolving significance amid growing queer acceptance and assimilation.

Autoethnography as Applied Communication Research
2020, Handbook of Applied Communication Research, co-authored with Arthur P. Bochner

Art and I frame autoethnography as a way to do and live applied communication research. We show how storying lived experience can illuminate social problems, foster understanding, and inspire meaningful personal and cultural change.

Critical Rhetoric, Relationality, and Temporality: A Case for Forgiveness
2020, International Journal of Communication

I consider the use of critical rhetoric, the responsibilities of the critic, and postcriticism tasks through the concepts of relationality, temporality, and forgiveness.

Communication is Production
2020, Communication Is … Perspectives on Theory, co-authored with Anji L. Phillips

Anji and I describe the components of production in interpersonal and mediated communication contexts. Both contexts invoke novel ideas about what communication is, how communication happens, and why communication matters.

Public Ethnography
2019, The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship, co-authored with Robin M. Boylorn

Robin and I describe the characteristics and practices of doing fieldwork in public contexts and representing ethnographic fieldwork for public (nonacademic) audiences.

Looking Out: Gay Bars, Safe Spaces, and the Pulse Massacre
2018, Qualitative Inquiry

I reflect on the Pulse nightclub massacre to examine gay bars as safe spaces of belonging, vulnerability, and resilience.

Supervising, Sharing, and Evaluating Autoethnography
2018, International Perspectives on Autoethnographic Research and Practice

In this chapter, I describe supervising, sharing, and evaluating autoethnographic projects.

Critical Autoethnography, Education, and a Call for Forgiveness
2017, International Journal of Multicultural Education

I describe characteristics of forgiveness and establish relationships between forgiveness and critical autoethnography. I then offer three examples of critical autoethnography.

Autoethnographic Responsibilities
2017, International Review of Qualitative Research

In this article, I identify perspectives for doing autoethnography and criteria for evaluating autoethnography